diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 5faf6be9df0..54ed15d8d53 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -125,8 +125,9 @@ New Features
   (Stefan Matheis, Mark Miller)
   SOLR-3108: Error in SolrCloud's replica lookup code when replica's are hosted in same Solr instance.
   (Bruno Dumon, Sami Siren, Mark Miller)
-  SOLR-3080: Remove shard info from zookeeper when SolrCore is explicitlyunloaded.
+  SOLR-3080: Remove shard info from zookeeper when SolrCore is explicitly unloaded.
   (yonik, Mark Miller, siren)
+  SOLR-3437: Recovery issues a spurious commit to the cluster. (Trym R. Møller via Mark Miller)
 
 * SOLR-1566: Transforming documents in the ResponseWriters.  This will allow
   for more complex results in responses and open the door for function queries
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RecoveryStrategy.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RecoveryStrategy.java
index 98f6c1f3d98..e3f7a9111a9 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RecoveryStrategy.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RecoveryStrategy.java
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ public class RecoveryStrategy extends Thread implements SafeStopThread {
     ureq.getParams().set(DistributedUpdateProcessor.COMMIT_END_POINT, true);
     ureq.setAction(AbstractUpdateRequest.ACTION.COMMIT, false, true).process(
         server);
-    server.commit();
     server.shutdown();
   }