diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7f6bff5b95..19f07f4e5b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1090,6 +1090,9 @@ Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7390. VersionInfo not generated properly in git after unsplit. (todd
     via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-7568. SequenceFile should not print into stdout.
+    (Plamen Jeliazkov via shv)
+
 Release 0.21.1 - Unreleased
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
index 0da6630b20..a7d1ba63ec 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
@@ -1668,7 +1668,6 @@ private void initialize(Path filename, FSDataInputStream in,
       try {
         seek(start);
         this.end = this.in.getPos() + length;
-        System.out.println("Setting end to " + end);
         // if it wrapped around, use the max
         if (end < length) {
           end = Long.MAX_VALUE;