diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 94b10bf80a..750f419720 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Hadoop Change Log
 Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
-   
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
     HADOOP-7595. Upgrade dependency to Avro 1.5.3. (Alejandro Abdelnur via atm)