diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 77a08d4c4b..c3bece55cc 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-8285 MR changes for Use ProtoBuf for RpcPayLoadHeader (sanjay radia)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3302. Remove the last dependency call from
+    org.apache.hadoop.record package in MR. (harsh)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     MAPREDUCE-4100. [Gridmix] Bug fixed in compression emulation feature for 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/security/SecureShuffleUtils.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/security/SecureShuffleUtils.java
index ef9fe2cbdc..c4c07dddc8 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/security/SecureShuffleUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/security/SecureShuffleUtils.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.token.JobTokenSecretManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.record.Utils;
 
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ public class SecureShuffleUtils {
    */
   private static boolean verifyHash(byte[] hash, byte[] msg, SecretKey key) {
     byte[] msg_hash = generateByteHash(msg, key);
-    return Utils.compareBytes(msg_hash, 0, msg_hash.length, hash, 0, hash.length) == 0;
+    return WritableComparator.compareBytes(msg_hash, 0, msg_hash.length, hash, 0, hash.length) == 0;
   }
   
   /**