diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c58169c9d4..0c66e9d435 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     HADOOP-9216. CompressionCodecFactory#getCodecClasses should trim the
     result of parsing by Configuration. (Tsuyoshi Ozawa via todd)
 
+    HADOOP-9231. Parametrize staging URL for the uniformity of
+    distributionManagement. (Konstantin Boudnik via suresh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-8866. SampleQuantiles#query is O(N^2) instead of O(N). (Andrew Wang