diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 96cf552408a..db54bfbd41c 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1017  Region balancing does not bring newly added node within
                acceptable range (Evgeny Ryabitskiy via Stack)
    HBASE-1454  HBaseAdmin.getClusterStatus
+   HBASE-1236  Improve readability of table descriptions in the UI
+               (Lars George and Alex Newman via Stack)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-1412  Change values for delete column and column family in KeyValue
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
index 272baab9224..ca1a804627b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ public class HLog implements HConstants, Syncable {
       throw new IOException("Target HLog directory already exists: " + dir);
     }
     fs.mkdirs(dir);
-    this.maxLogs = conf.getInt("hbase.regionserver.maxlogs", 64);
+    this.maxLogs = conf.getInt("hbase.regionserver.maxlogs", 32);
     this.enabled = conf.getBoolean("hbase.regionserver.hlog.enabled", true);
     LOG.info("HLog configuration: blocksize=" + this.blocksize +
       ", rollsize=" + this.logrollsize +