diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 48c2638abe2..15685c08f44 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
                COMPRESSION via shell
    HBASE-3310  Failing creating/altering table with compression agrument from
                the HBase shell (Igor Ranitovic via Stack)
+   HBASE-3317  Javadoc and Throws Declaration for Bytes.incrementBytes() is
+               Wrong (Ed Kohlwey via Stack)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-2001  Coprocessors: Colocate user code with regions (Mingjie Lai via
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
index f2cc3059b2b..aba2c3bc894 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
@@ -1178,10 +1178,9 @@ public class Bytes {
    * @param value - array of bytes containing long (length <= SIZEOF_LONG)
    * @param amount value will be incremented on (deincremented if negative)
    * @return array of bytes containing incremented long (length == SIZEOF_LONG)
-   * @throws IOException - if value.length > SIZEOF_LONG
    */
   public static byte [] incrementBytes(byte[] value, long amount)
-  throws IOException {
+  {
     byte[] val = value;
     if (val.length < SIZEOF_LONG) {
       // Hopefully this doesn't happen too often.