diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9958213875..6a3af45a84 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5167. Update MR App after YARN-562 to use the new builder API
     for the container. (Jian He via vinodkv)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5179. Fix unit test in TestHSWebServices which fails when
+    versionInfo has parantheses like when running on a git checkout. (Hitesh Shah
+    via vinodkv)
+
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/TestHsWebServices.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/TestHsWebServices.java
index 45a464edbb..66b36632ca 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/TestHsWebServices.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/webapp/TestHsWebServices.java
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ public void verifyHsInfoGeneric(String hadoopVersionBuiltOn,
       String hadoopBuildVersion, String hadoopVersion, long startedon) {
     WebServicesTestUtils.checkStringMatch("hadoopVersionBuiltOn",
         VersionInfo.getDate(), hadoopVersionBuiltOn);
-    WebServicesTestUtils.checkStringMatch("hadoopBuildVersion",
+    WebServicesTestUtils.checkStringEqual("hadoopBuildVersion",
         VersionInfo.getBuildVersion(), hadoopBuildVersion);
     WebServicesTestUtils.checkStringMatch("hadoopVersion",
         VersionInfo.getVersion(), hadoopVersion);