diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 3d173ebad27..e531f6c04b0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1987  The Put object has no simple read methods for checking what
                has already been added (Ryan Smith via Stack)
    HBASE-1985  change HTable.delete(ArrayList) to HTable.delete(List)
+   HBASE-1958  Remove "# TODO: PUT BACK !!! "${HADOOP_HOME}"/bin/hadoop
+               dfsadmin -safemode wait"
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-1901  "General" partitioner for "hbase-48" bulk (behind the api, write
diff --git a/bin/start-hbase.sh b/bin/start-hbase.sh
index c1209e04afe..866c5bb4497 100755
--- a/bin/start-hbase.sh
+++ b/bin/start-hbase.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
 . "$bin"/hbase-config.sh
 
 # start hbase daemons
-# TODO: PUT BACK !!! "${HADOOP_HOME}"/bin/hadoop dfsadmin -safemode wait
 errCode=$?
 if [ $errCode -ne 0 ]
 then