diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 1fdcab359c8..184e4ce5d73 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
                MemStoreFlusher#checkStoreFileCount
    HBASE-1758  Extract interface out of HTable (Vaibhav Puranik via Andrew
                Purtell)
+   HBASE-1776  Make rowcounter enum public
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/RowCounter.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/RowCounter.java
index 0d7b0fb705e..c5d122db8eb 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/RowCounter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/RowCounter.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class RowCounter {
   extends TableMapper<ImmutableBytesWritable, Result> {
     
     /** Counter enumeration to count the actual rows. */
-    private static enum Counters { ROWS }
+    public static enum Counters { ROWS }
 
     /**
      * Maps the data.
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@ public class RowCounter {
     Job job = createSubmittableJob(conf, otherArgs);
     System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}