diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 8f5d724e82..55c65f53bf 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -177,11 +177,15 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3363. add localization and container launch time to ContainerMetrics
     at NM to show these timing information for each active container.
     (zxu via rkanter)
+
     YARN-3396. Handle URISyntaxException in ResourceLocalizationService. 
     (Brahma Reddy Battula via junping_du)
 
     YARN-3491. PublicLocalizer#addResource is too slow. (zxu via rkanter)
 
+    YARN-3523. Cleanup ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol interface audience.
+    (Naganarasimha G R via junping_du)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     YARN-3339. TestDockerContainerExecutor should pull a single image and not
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/api/ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/api/ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol.java
index 0cfa8ce573..36dfbc0ece 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/api/ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-api/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/api/ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol.java
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Public;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability.Evolving;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability.Stable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.Idempotent;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.StandbyException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.GetUserMappingsProtocol;
@@ -54,45 +51,38 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.api.protocolrecords.UpdateNodeResourceResponse;
 
 @Private
-@Stable
 public interface ResourceManagerAdministrationProtocol extends GetUserMappingsProtocol {
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshQueuesResponse refreshQueues(RefreshQueuesRequest request) 
   throws StandbyException, YarnException, IOException;
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshNodesResponse refreshNodes(RefreshNodesRequest request)
   throws StandbyException, YarnException, IOException;
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshSuperUserGroupsConfigurationResponse 
   refreshSuperUserGroupsConfiguration(
       RefreshSuperUserGroupsConfigurationRequest request)
   throws StandbyException, YarnException, IOException;
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshUserToGroupsMappingsResponse refreshUserToGroupsMappings(
       RefreshUserToGroupsMappingsRequest request)
   throws StandbyException, YarnException, IOException;
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshAdminAclsResponse refreshAdminAcls(
       RefreshAdminAclsRequest request)
   throws YarnException, IOException;
 
-  @Public
-  @Stable
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RefreshServiceAclsResponse refreshServiceAcls(
       RefreshServiceAclsRequest request)
@@ -112,33 +102,28 @@ public RefreshServiceAclsResponse refreshServiceAcls(
    * @throws YarnException
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  @Public
-  @Evolving
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public UpdateNodeResourceResponse updateNodeResource(
       UpdateNodeResourceRequest request) 
   throws YarnException, IOException;
    
-  @Public
-  @Evolving
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public AddToClusterNodeLabelsResponse addToClusterNodeLabels(
       AddToClusterNodeLabelsRequest request) throws YarnException, IOException;
    
-  @Public
-  @Evolving
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsResponse removeFromClusterNodeLabels(
       RemoveFromClusterNodeLabelsRequest request) throws YarnException, IOException;
   
-  @Public
-  @Evolving
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public ReplaceLabelsOnNodeResponse replaceLabelsOnNode(
       ReplaceLabelsOnNodeRequest request) throws YarnException, IOException;
   
-  @Public
-  @Evolving
+  @Private
   @Idempotent
   public CheckForDecommissioningNodesResponse checkForDecommissioningNodes(
       CheckForDecommissioningNodesRequest checkForDecommissioningNodesRequest)