diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index e2238f8af8..51e01b5594 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4107. Fix tests in org.apache.hadoop.ipc.TestSocketFactory
     (Devaraj K via tgraves)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4147. YARN should not have a compile-time dependency on HDFS.
+    (tomwhite)
+
 Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/pom.xml
index fc0f8f895a..438d034c23 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/pom.xml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.inject</groupId>