diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index af6c957690..5d71309d31 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     MAPREDUCE-3544. gridmix build is broken, requires hadoop-archives to be added as 
     ivy dependency. (tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3557. MR1 test fail to compile because of missing hadoop-archives dependency. 
+    (tucu)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
index ee57f1af0e..e9b38d077e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/ivy.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@
                rev="${yarn.version}" conf="compile->default">
      <artifact name="hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient" type="tests" ext="jar" m:classifier="tests"/>
    </dependency>
+   <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="hadoop-archives"
+               rev="${hadoop-common.version}" conf="compile->default"/>
 
    <dependency org="checkstyle" name="checkstyle" rev="${checkstyle.version}"
                conf="checkstyle->default"/>