diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cbf61c218d6..5a38fa4792f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
                (Kazuki Ohta via todd)
    HBASE-3716  Intermittent TestRegionRebalancing failure
                (Ted Yu via Stack)
+   HBASE-3712  HTable.close() doesn't shutdown thread pool
+               (Ted Yu via Stack)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-3290  Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)  
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
index 5c9310eed82..10f3c7ee3b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
@@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ public class HTable implements HTableInterface {
   @Override
   public void close() throws IOException {
     flushCommits();
+    this.pool.shutdown();
   }
 
   // validate for well-formedness