diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 65226063e1..94ad08a2ef 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1331,6 +1331,8 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-12567: NPE in SaslRpcServer (Sergey Shelukhin via cnauroth)
 
+    HADOOP-8419. Fixed GzipCode NPE reset for IBM JDK. (Yu Li via eyang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-12051. ProtobufRpcEngine.invoke() should use Exception.toString()