diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 64d5d27eb81..78180ec4fb2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3903  A successful write to client write-buffer may be lost or not
                visible (Doug Meil)
    HBASE-3894  Thread contention over row locks set monitor (Dave Latham)
+   HBASE-3959  hadoop-snappy version in the pom.xml is incorrect
+               (Alejandro Abdelnur)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-3290  Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)  
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 34977c96c1f..059dc0e517e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@
     <stax-api.version>1.0.1</stax-api.version>
     <thrift.version>0.6.1</thrift.version>
     <zookeeper.version>3.3.3</zookeeper.version>
-    <hadoop-snappy.version>0.0.1-cdh3u1-SNAPSHOT</hadoop-snappy.version>
+    <hadoop-snappy.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</hadoop-snappy.version>
 
     <package.prefix>/usr</package.prefix>	           
     <package.conf.dir>/etc/hbase</package.conf.dir>