diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c3e7b40d66a..d3ddf00ebbf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Release 0.18.2 - Unreleased
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1046  Narrow getClosestRowBefore by passing column family (backport)
+   HBASE-1069  Show whether HRegion major compacts or not in INFO level
 
 
 Release 0.18.1 - Released October 27, 2008
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
index ea7e0024fe2..51cd7c15289 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
@@ -895,7 +895,8 @@ public class HRegion implements HConstants {
               return midKey;
           }
         }
-        LOG.info("starting compaction on region " + this);
+        LOG.info("starting " + (majorCompaction? "major" : "") +
+            " compaction on region " + this);
         long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         doRegionCompactionPrep();
         long maxSize = -1;