diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9f588b80b2..bf9d997151 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -746,6 +746,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11955. Fix a typo in the cluster setup doc.
     (Yanjun Wang via aajisaka)
 
+    HADOOP-11743. maven doesn't clean all the site files
+    (ramtin via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index bb735c2e78..6f9ecf7a3a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -942,7 +942,8 @@
                 <fileset>
                   <directory>src/site/markdown/release</directory>
                     <includes>
-                      <include>${project.version}</include>
+                      <include>${project.version}/</include>
+                      <include>index.md</include>
                     </includes>
                   <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
                 </fileset>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index c11b963e9c..1edb67dda6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -395,6 +395,21 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <filesets>
+            <fileset>
+              <directory>src/site/resources</directory>
+              <includes>
+                <include>configuration.xsl</include>
+                <include>hdfs-default.xml</include>
+              </includes>
+              <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
+            </fileset>
+          </filesets>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/pom.xml
index c524b60bdb..61f3c533b8 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/pom.xml
@@ -97,6 +97,21 @@
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <filesets>
+            <fileset>
+              <directory>src/site/resources</directory>
+              <includes>
+                <include>configuration.xsl</include>
+                <include>mapred-default.xml</include>
+              </includes>
+              <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
+            </fileset>
+          </filesets>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
index bbf9d859ab..602fcd7185 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
@@ -293,7 +293,21 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <filesets>
+            <fileset>
+              <directory>src/site/resources</directory>
+              <includes>
+                <include>configuration.xsl</include>
+                <include>yarn-default.xml</include>
+              </includes>
+              <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
+            </fileset>
+          </filesets>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
index 2823f2cd7d..18040b405d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
@@ -149,6 +149,20 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <filesets>
+            <fileset>
+              <directory>src/site/resources</directory>
+                <includes>
+                  <include>configuration.xsl</include>
+                </includes>
+              <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
+            </fileset>
+          </filesets>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>