diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 46752a50c4..a253040539 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -600,6 +600,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7633. Adds log4j.properties to the hadoop-conf dir on
     deploy (Eric Yang via ddas)
 
+    HADOOP-7631. Fixes a config problem to do with running streaming jobs
+    (Eric Yang via ddas)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/mapred-site.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/mapred-site.xml
index 8c0f61653b..9316eed1f6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/mapred-site.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/mapred-site.xml
@@ -103,12 +103,6 @@
     <value>INFO,TLA</value>
   </property>
 
-  <property>
-    <name>stream.tmpdir</name>
-    <value>${mapred.temp.dir}</value>
-  </property>
-
-
   <property>
     <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name>
     <value>-server -Xmx640m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true</value>