diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 85df389575..4035ef8c29 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
 
     HADOOP-12541. make re2j dependency consistent (Matthew Paduano via aw)
 
+    HADOOP-11887. Introduce Intel ISA-L erasure coding library for native
+    erasure encoding support (Kai Zheng via Colin P. McCabe)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-11473. test-patch says "-1 overall" even when all checks are +1
@@ -948,9 +951,6 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12040. Adjust inputs order for the decode API in raw erasure coder.
     (Kai Zheng via yliu)
 
-    HADOOP-11887. Introduce Intel ISA-L erasure coding library for native
-    erasure encoding support (Kai Zheng via Colin P. McCabe)
-
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11785. Reduce the number of listStatus operation in distcp