diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 131151efa09..c60647bd594 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3583  Coprocessors: scannerNext and scannerClose hooks are called
                when HRegionInterface#get is invoked (Mingjie Lai via
                Andrew Purtell)
+   HBASE-3688  Setters of class HTableDescriptor do not work properly
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-3290  Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)  
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
index 5c8c2ff9086..0641f525af7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ public class HTableDescriptor implements WritableComparable<HTableDescriptor> {
    */
   public void setDeferredLogFlush(final boolean isDeferredLogFlush) {
     setValue(DEFERRED_LOG_FLUSH_KEY, isDeferredLogFlush? TRUE: FALSE);
+    this.isDeferredLog = isDeferredLogFlush;
   }
 
   /** @return name of table */
@@ -424,6 +425,8 @@ public class HTableDescriptor implements WritableComparable<HTableDescriptor> {
   /** @param name name of table */
   public void setName(byte[] name) {
     this.name = name;
+    this.nameAsString = Bytes.toString(this.name);
+    setMetaFlags(this.name);
   }
 
   /**