diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 03f9559140..26be711214 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Hadoop Change Log
 
 Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+   
+   HADOOP-7542. Change Configuration XML format to 1.1 to add support for
+                serializing additional characters. This requires XML1.1
+                support in the XML parser (Christopher Egner via harsh)
+
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
     HADOOP-7595. Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3. (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)
@@ -38,9 +44,6 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
    HADOOP-6432. Add Statistics support in FileContext. (jitendra)
 
    HADOOP-7136. Remove failmon contrib component. (nigel)
-   
-   HADOOP-7542. Change Configuration XML format to 1.1 to support for serializing additional
-   characters. This requires XML1.1 support in the XML parser (Christopher Egner via harsh)
 
   NEW FEATURES