diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9436db758e1..989900cb92a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ Release 0.92.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-4552  Remove trivial 0.90 deprecated code from 0.92 and trunk.
                (Jonathan Hsieh)
    HBASE-4714  Don't ship w/ icms enabled by default
+   HBASE-4747  Upgrade maven surefire plugin to 2.10
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-2001  Coprocessors: Colocate user code with regions (Mingjie Lai via
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1fc81cb6bc1..4364fb9e0e5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>2.9</version>
+          <version>2.10</version>
           <configuration>
             <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>900</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
             <argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx1400m</argLine>