diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 96b7ca3a2e5..16121f3038c 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3065  Retry all 'retryable' zk operations; e.g. connection loss (Liyin Tang)
    HBASE-3810  Registering a coprocessor in HTableDescriptor should be easier
                (Mingjie Lai via garyh)
+   HBASE-4158  Upgrade pom.xml to surefire 2.9 (Aaron Kushner & Mikhail)
 
   TASKS
    HBASE-3559  Move report of split to master OFF the heartbeat channel
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9e4f0396054..d8713eb68f1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.9</version>
           <configuration>
             <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>900</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
             <argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx1400m</argLine>
@@ -265,6 +266,10 @@
           <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>0.6</version>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.9</version>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>