diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index fece700283..a0bd91c4c9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-6978. Adds support for NativeIO using JNI. 
     (Todd Lipcon, Devaraj Das & Owen O'Malley via ddas)
 
+    HADOOP-7134. configure files that are generated as part of the released
+    tarball need to have executable bit set. (Roman Shaposhnik via cos)
+
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
     HADOOP-6644. util.Shell getGROUPS_FOR_USER_COMMAND method name 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 8db8d46721..1418d835f2 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@
   	
     <copy todir="${dist.dir}/" file="build.xml"/>
 
+    <chmod perm="ugo+x" file="${dist.dir}/src/native/configure"/>
     <chmod perm="ugo+x" type="file" parallel="false">
         <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/bin"/>
         <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/src/contrib/">
@@ -1171,11 +1172,13 @@
         <tarfileset dir="${build.dir}" mode="664">
           <exclude name="${final.name}/bin/*" />
           <exclude name="${final.name}/contrib/*/bin/*" />
+          <exclude name="${final.name}/src/native/configure" />
           <include name="${final.name}/**" />
         </tarfileset>
         <tarfileset dir="${build.dir}" mode="755">
           <include name="${final.name}/bin/*" />
           <include name="${final.name}/contrib/*/bin/*" />
+          <include name="${final.name}/src/native/configure" />
         </tarfileset>
       </param.listofitems>
     </macro_tar>