diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 47a537981b..456fa4e472 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1704. Modified LICENSE and NOTICE files to reflect newly used levelDB
     related libraries. (Billie Rinaldi via vinodkv)
 
+    YARN-1765. Added test cases to verify that killApplication API works across
+    ResourceManager failover. (Xuan Gong via vinodkv) 
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES