diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
index 3c5caae1a3..fb18eea780 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,5 @@ HDFS-2671. NN should throw StandbyException in response to RPCs in STANDBY state
 HDFS-2680. DFSClient should construct failover proxy with exponential backoff (todd)
 
 HDFS-2683. Authority-based lookup of proxy provider fails if path becomes canonicalized (todd)
+
+HDFS-2689. HA: BookKeeperEditLogInputStream doesn't implement isInProgress() (atm)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/contrib/bkjournal/BookKeeperEditLogInputStream.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/contrib/bkjournal/BookKeeperEditLogInputStream.java
index 707182ec5c..636471a450 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/contrib/bkjournal/BookKeeperEditLogInputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/contrib/bkjournal/BookKeeperEditLogInputStream.java
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ public JournalType getType() {
     return null;
   }
 
+  // TODO(HA): Test this.
+  @Override
+  public boolean isInProgress() {
+    return true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Input stream implementation which can be used by 
    * FSEditLogOp.Reader
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogInputStream.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogInputStream.java
index 2c4bdd53d0..7a7f8d8743 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogInputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogInputStream.java
@@ -86,5 +86,5 @@ public abstract class EditLogInputStream implements JournalStream, Closeable {
   /**
    * Return true if this stream is in progress, false if it is finalized.
    */
-  abstract boolean isInProgress();
+  public abstract boolean isInProgress();
 }