diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a90c0a77dda..fba23aad3a3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1394  Uploads sometimes fall to 0 requests/second (Binding up on
                HLog#append?)
    HBASE-1429  Allow passing of a configuration object to HTablePool
+   HBASE-1432  LuceneDocumentWrapper is not public
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-1412  Change values for delete column and column family in KeyValue
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapred/LuceneDocumentWrapper.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapred/LuceneDocumentWrapper.java
index 07fe30c61f9..4523ab92cca 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapred/LuceneDocumentWrapper.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapred/LuceneDocumentWrapper.java
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
  * A utility class used to pass a lucene document from reduce to OutputFormat.
  * It doesn't really serialize/deserialize a lucene document.
  */
-class LuceneDocumentWrapper implements Writable {
-  private Document doc;
+public class LuceneDocumentWrapper implements Writable {
+  protected Document doc;
 
   /**
    * @param doc