diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d35f189f44..f89464eb4e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ conf/hadoop-policy.xml
 conf/capacity-scheduler.xml
 conf/mapred-queue-acls.xml
 docs/api/
+ivy/ivy-2.0.0-rc2.jar
 logs/
 src/contrib/ec2/bin/hadoop-ec2-env.sh
 src/docs/build
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 11673f870f..bd58c15343 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-6217. Update documentation for project split. (Corinne Chandel via 
     omalley)
 
+    HADOOP-6268. Add ivy jar to .gitignore. (Todd Lipcon via cdouglas)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-5595. NameNode does not need to run a replicator to choose a