diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 4740346c86..903a9b1d85 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Release 2.1.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+    YARN-1246. Added application finish-status to ApplicationSummary for the sake
+    of testing given ApplicationHistoryServer is not yet ready. (Arpit Gupta via
+    vinodkv)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMAppManager.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMAppManager.java
index 0c38f506b5..e661344438 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMAppManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMAppManager.java
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ public static SummaryBuilder createAppSummary(RMApp app) {
           .add("trackingUrl", trackingUrl)
           .add("appMasterHost", host)
           .add("startTime", app.getStartTime())
-          .add("finishTime", app.getFinishTime());
+          .add("finishTime", app.getFinishTime())
+          .add("finalStatus", app.getFinalApplicationStatus());
       return summary;
     }