diff --git a/dev-support/relnotes.py b/dev-support/relnotes.py
index 9a3702340e..57d48a4bbd 100644
--- a/dev-support/relnotes.py
+++ b/dev-support/relnotes.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def __init__(self, versions):
     end=1
     count=100
     while (at < end):
-      params = urllib.urlencode({'jql': "project in (HADOOP,HDFS,MAPREDUCE,YARN) and fixVersion in ('"+"' , '".join(versions)+"') and resolution = Fixed", 'startAt':at+1, 'maxResults':count})
+      params = urllib.urlencode({'jql': "project in (HADOOP,HDFS,MAPREDUCE,YARN) and fixVersion in ('"+"' , '".join(versions)+"') and resolution = Fixed", 'startAt':at, 'maxResults':count})
       resp = urllib.urlopen("https://issues.apache.org/jira/rest/api/2/search?%s"%params)
       data = json.loads(resp.read())
       if (data.has_key('errorMessages')):
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a0401aa0f6..bd31f33278 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1319,6 +1319,8 @@ Release 0.23.6 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9097. Maven RAT plugin is not checking all source files (tgraves)
 
+    HADOOP-9255. relnotes.py missing last jira (tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.5 - 2012-11-28