diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 2cfec6f83f..15e9499e56 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     MAPREDUCE-3003. Publish MR JARs to Maven snapshot repository. (tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3204. mvn site:site fails on MapReduce. (tucu)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index c44f3e2f21..4a17ccd212 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>2.1.1</version>
+          <version>2.2</version>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c257050b02..f635d5f9ab 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@
           <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>1.6</version>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.2</version>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>