diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index c39de2a5164..52eb1f8d8fc 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -889,6 +889,9 @@ Release 0.23.8 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5015. Coverage fix for org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.tools.CLI
     (Aleksey Gorshkov via tgraves)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5147. Maven build should create 
+    hadoop-mapreduce-client-app-VERSION.jar directly (Robert Parker via tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.7 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
index b3edbc43904..0f5da293e76 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
-    <!-- local name for links -->
-    <finalName>mr-app</finalName>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -90,26 +88,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>create-mr-app-symlinks</id>
-            <phase>package</phase>
-            <configuration>
-              <target>
-                <symlink link="${applink.base}.jar"
-                    resource="mr-app.jar" failonerror="false"/>
-                <symlink link="${applink.base}-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"
-                    resource="mr-app.jar" failonerror="false"/>
-              </target>
-            </configuration>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>