diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 75cc94ff11..9df6a12fcb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-7348. Change 'addnl' in getmerge util to be a flag '-nl' instead (XieXianshan via harsh)
 
+    HADOOP-7919. Remove the unused hadoop.logfile.* properties from the core-default.xml file. (harsh)
+
   BUGS
 
     HADOOP-7851. Configuration.getClasses() never returns the default value. 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
index e34c202373..9763845786 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
@@ -134,20 +134,6 @@
   </description>
 </property>
 
-<!--- logging properties -->
-
-<property>
-  <name>hadoop.logfile.size</name>
-  <value>10000000</value>
-  <description>The max size of each log file</description>
-</property>
-
-<property>
-  <name>hadoop.logfile.count</name>
-  <value>10</value>
-  <description>The max number of log files</description>
-</property>
-
 <!-- i/o properties -->
 <property>
   <name>io.file.buffer.size</name>