diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d6f403e9599..effcb9048e7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1714  Thrift server: prefix scan API
    HBASE-1719  hold a reference to the region in stores instead of only the
                region info
+   HBASE-1723  getRowWithColumnsTs changed behavior (Mathias Lehman via Stack)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-1412  Change values for delete column and column family in KeyValue
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/ThriftServer.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/ThriftServer.java
index e8ba93301cc..8ac70604d37 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/ThriftServer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/ThriftServer.java
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ public class ThriftServer {
         HTable table = getTable(tableName);
         if (columns == null) {
           Get get = new Get(row);
-          get.setTimeRange(Long.MIN_VALUE, timestamp);
+          get.setTimeStamp(timestamp);
           Result result = table.get(get);
           return ThriftUtilities.rowResultFromHBase(result.getRowResult());
         }
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ public class ThriftServer {
               get.addColumn(famAndQf[0], famAndQf[1]);
           }
         }
-        get.setTimeRange(Long.MIN_VALUE, timestamp);
+        get.setTimeStamp(timestamp);
         Result result = table.get(get);
         return ThriftUtilities.rowResultFromHBase(result.getRowResult());
       } catch (IOException e) {