diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 2056f9de78..d74920022d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-6566. Add methods supporting, enforcing narrower permissions on
     local daemon directories. (Arun Murthy and Luke Lu via cdouglas)
 
+    HADOOP-6705. Fix to work with 1.5 version of jiracli
+    (Giridharan Kesavan)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-6467. Improve the performance on HarFileSystem.listStatus(..).
diff --git a/src/test/bin/test-patch.sh b/src/test/bin/test-patch.sh
index 8741f116af..034f5f9e6c 100755
--- a/src/test/bin/test-patch.sh
+++ b/src/test/bin/test-patch.sh
@@ -632,12 +632,10 @@ $comment"
     echo "======================================================================"
     echo ""
     echo ""
-
     ### Update Jira with a comment
     export USER=hudson
-    $JIRACLI -s issues.apache.org/jira login hadoopqa $JIRA_PASSWD
-    $JIRACLI -s issues.apache.org/jira comment $defect "$comment"
-    $JIRACLI -s issues.apache.org/jira logout
+    $JIRACLI -s https://issues.apache.org/jira -a addcomment -u hadoopqa -p $JIRA_PASSWD --comment "$comment" --issue $defect
+    $JIRACLI -s https://issues.apache.org/jira -a logout -u hadoopqa -p $JIRA_PASSWD
   fi
 }