diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index c80958bb45f..963f1bab629 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-12674: RollupStream should not use the HashQueryParser for 1 worker. (Varun Thacker)
 
-* SOLR-12679: MiniSolrCloudCluster.stopJettySolrRunner should remove jetty from the internal list. (shalin)
+* SOLR-12679: MiniSolrCloudCluster internal jetty list should never have duplicates (shalin)
 
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
diff --git a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/MiniSolrCloudCluster.java b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/MiniSolrCloudCluster.java
index 8b442db3083..f49870fdca0 100644
--- a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/MiniSolrCloudCluster.java
+++ b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/MiniSolrCloudCluster.java
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ public class MiniSolrCloudCluster {
    */
   public JettySolrRunner startJettySolrRunner(JettySolrRunner jetty) throws Exception {
     jetty.start(false);
-    jettys.add(jetty);
+    if (!jettys.contains(jetty)) jettys.add(jetty);
     return jetty;
   }