diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 5b577562e5..3014ab5ce8 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -380,6 +380,10 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5831. Make MR client ignore unknown counters received from AM.
     (Junping Du via zjshen)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6073. Description of mapreduce.job.speculative.slowtaskthreshold 
+    in mapred-default should be moved into description tags (Tsuyoshi OZAWA 
+    via aw)
+
 Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
index d1052c5b24..1a8607167b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
@@ -506,10 +506,10 @@
  
 <property>
   <name>mapreduce.job.speculative.slowtaskthreshold</name>
-  <value>1.0</value>The number of standard deviations by which a task's 
+  <value>1.0</value>
+  <description>The number of standard deviations by which a task's
   ave progress-rates must be lower than the average of all running tasks'
   for the task to be considered too slow.
-  <description>
   </description>
 </property>