diff --git a/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f8b24db420..8c739df144 100644
--- a/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -498,6 +498,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7545. Common -tests JAR should not include properties and configs.
     (todd)
 
+    HADOOP-7536. Correct the dependency version regressions introduced in
+    HADOOP-6671. (Alejandro Abdelnur via tomwhite)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 3c8cb5c42a..3cc455a848 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.4</version>
+        <version>1.1.1</version>
         <exclusions>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>avalon-framework</groupId>
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-logging-api</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.4</version>
+        <version>1.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>log4j</groupId>
@@ -292,12 +292,12 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.8</version>
+        <version>1.5.11</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.8</version>
+        <version>1.5.11</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>