diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index e486f2a564..afd3d0af04 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
     HADOOP-10017. Fix NPE in DFSClient#getDelegationToken when doing Distcp 
     from a secured cluster to an insecured cluster. (Haohui Mai via jing9)
 
+    HADOOP-10028. Malformed ssl-server.xml.example. (Haohui Mai via jing9)
+
 Release 2.1.1-beta - 2013-09-23
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/ssl-server.xml.example b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/ssl-server.xml.example
index 4b363ff21f..02d300cd79 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/ssl-server.xml.example
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/ssl-server.xml.example
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
   <value>10000</value>
   <description>Truststore reload check interval, in milliseconds.
   Default value is 10000 (10 seconds).
+  </description>
 </property>
 
 <property>