diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 927e424572..c4096b31ba 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
HADOOP-8147. test-patch should run tests with -fn to avoid masking test
failures (Robert Evans via tgraves)
+ HADOOP-8117. Upgrade test build to Surefire 2.12 (todd)
+
BUG FIXES
HADOOP-8177. MBeans shouldn't try to register when it fails to create MBeanName.
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 3e1ac2a98e..1281908e75 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-surefire-plugin
- 2.10
+ 2.12
org.apache.maven.plugins