diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 022b379770..5d8a454525 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2811,6 +2811,9 @@ Release 0.23.11 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10332. HttpServer's jetty audit log always logs 200 OK (jeagles)
 
+    HADOOP-8826. Docs still refer to 0.20.205 as stable line (Mit Desai via
+    jeagles)
+
 Release 0.23.10 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/YARN.apt.vm b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/YARN.apt.vm
index d380fdb05a..465c5d1dce 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/YARN.apt.vm
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/YARN.apt.vm
@@ -72,6 +72,6 @@ Apache Hadoop NextGen MapReduce (YARN)
   monitoring for progress.
 
   MRV2 maintains <<API compatibility>> with previous stable release 
-  (hadoop-0.20.205).  This means that all Map-Reduce jobs should still run 
+  (hadoop-1.x).  This means that all Map-Reduce jobs should still run 
   unchanged on top of MRv2 with just a recompile.