diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d3119743cb4..75d54a93cd4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
                of the supplied byte array (Bruno Dumon via Stack)
    HBASE-2211  Add a new Filter that checks a single column value but does not
                emit it. (Ferdy via Stack)
+   HBASE-2241  Change balancer sloppyness from 0.1 to 0.3
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-1961  HBase EC2 scripts
diff --git a/conf/hbase-default.xml b/conf/hbase-default.xml
index 8f24b8203b7..2b88cbfb1b1 100644
--- a/conf/hbase-default.xml
+++ b/conf/hbase-default.xml
@@ -383,9 +383,9 @@
   </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.regions.slop</name>
-    <value>0.1</value>
+    <value>0.3</value>
     <description>Rebalance if regionserver has average + (average * slop) regions.
-    Default is 10% slop.
+    Default is 30% slop.
     </description>
   </property>
   <property>