diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f01d056b96..207c74791d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-7375. Add resolvePath method to FileContext. (Sanjay Radia via eli)
 
+    HADOOP-7383. HDFS needs to export protobuf library dependency in pom.
+    (todd via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
   
     HADOOP-7333. Performance improvement in PureJavaCrc32. (Eric Caspole
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index fbfe6bdbad..c7d369943c 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -323,5 +323,9 @@
       name="guava"
       rev="${guava.version}"
       conf="common->default"/>
+    <dependency org="com.google.protobuf"
+      name="protobuf-java"
+      rev="${protobuf.version}"
+      conf="common->default"/>
   </dependencies>
 </ivy-module>
diff --git a/ivy/hadoop-common-template.xml b/ivy/hadoop-common-template.xml
index b87a9a4323..fcb31ff0f1 100644
--- a/ivy/hadoop-common-template.xml
+++ b/ivy/hadoop-common-template.xml
@@ -150,5 +150,10 @@
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
       <version>r09</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+      <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
+      <version>2.4.0a</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/ivy/libraries.properties b/ivy/libraries.properties
index 414b76653c..0b312635b8 100644
--- a/ivy/libraries.properties
+++ b/ivy/libraries.properties
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ mina-core.version=2.0.0-M5
 
 oro.version=2.0.8
 
+protobuf.version=2.4.0a
+
 rats-lib.version=0.6
 
 servlet.version=4.0.6