diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 418384e7ad..aad7ce4812 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6395. Skip checking xattr limits for non-user-visible namespaces.
     (Yi Liu via wang).
 
-    HDFS-3493. Invalidate corrupted blocks as long as minimum replication is
-    satisfied. (Juan Yu and Vinayakumar B via wang)
+    HDFS-3493. Invalidate excess corrupted blocks as long as minimum
+    replication is satisfied. (Juan Yu and Vinayakumar B via wang)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS