diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/GlobFilter.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/GlobFilter.java
index d0fe6146e3..b5c04f004f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/GlobFilter.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/GlobFilter.java
@@ -21,13 +21,8 @@
 import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
-
  // A class that could decide if a string matches the glob or not
-@InterfaceAudience.Public
-@InterfaceStability.Evolving
-public class GlobFilter implements PathFilter {
+class GlobFilter implements PathFilter {
   private final static PathFilter DEFAULT_FILTER = new PathFilter() {
       public boolean accept(Path file) {
         return true;
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 9a54457b03..caf283ac86 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HDFS-2322. the build fails in Windows because commons-daemon TAR cannot be fetched. (tucu)
 
-    HDFS-2474. Make GlobFilter class public. (tucu)
-
   BUG FIXES
     HDFS-2287. TestParallelRead has a small off-by-one bug. (todd)