diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f3c057ab64d..e3ada101ed6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1601,6 +1601,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12603. TestSymlinkLocalFSFileContext#testSetTimesSymlinkToDir
     occasionally fail. (Wei-Chiu Chuang via cnauroth)
 
+    HADOOP-12700. Remove unused import in TestCompressorDecompressor.java.
+    (John Zhuge via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
index 49a41fb8ba8..1f035974883 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCompressorDecompressor.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.compress;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 import java.util.Random;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressDecompressTester.CompressionTestStrategy;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.lz4.Lz4Compressor;