diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7bc77dd240..6dc8e177cd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -746,6 +746,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11040. Return value of read(ByteBuffer buf) in CryptoInputStream is
     incorrect in some cases. (Yi Liu via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-11140. hadoop-aws only need test-scoped dependency on
+    hadoop-common's tests jar. (Juan Yu via wang)
+
     BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-6134 AND HADOOP-10150 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
   
       HADOOP-10734. Implement high-performance secure random number sources.
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/pom.xml
index 61a5e84e9e..00fd98132d 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/pom.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <scope>test</scope>
       <type>test-jar</type>
     </dependency>