diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 444224bc75..5f1c0340f3 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
    HADOOP-7993. Hadoop ignores old-style config options for enabling compressed 
    output. (Anupam Seth via mahadev)
 
+   HADOOP-8000. fetchdt command not available in bin/hadoop.
+   (Arpit Gupta via mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
index e93040f33b..89dd17c43e 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ fi
 COMMAND=$1
 case $COMMAND in
   #hdfs commands
-  namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer)
+  namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|fetchdt)
     echo "DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute hdfs command is deprecated." 1>&2
     echo "Instead use the hdfs command for it." 1>&2
     echo "" 1>&2