diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 7e80d0e241..4a6aa0e6eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1435,6 +1435,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-2984. Better error message for displaying completed containers.
     (Devaraj K via acmurthy)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3071. app master configuration web UI link under the Job menu 
+    opens up application menu. (thomas graves  via mahadev)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/JobConfPage.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/JobConfPage.java
index 8bf2ce1955..983859e7d6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/JobConfPage.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/JobConfPage.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ public class JobConfPage extends AppView {
     set(TITLE, jobID.isEmpty() ? "Bad request: missing job ID"
         : join("Configuration for MapReduce Job ", $(JOB_ID)));
     commonPreHead(html);
+    set(initID(ACCORDION, "nav"), "{autoHeight:false, active:2}");
     set(DATATABLES_ID, "conf");
     set(initID(DATATABLES, "conf"), confTableInit());
     set(postInitID(DATATABLES, "conf"), confPostTableInit());