diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/nfs/nfs3/TestDFSClientCache.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/nfs/nfs3/TestDFSClientCache.java
index 6536cd80f4..54b7ee7fd1 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/nfs/nfs3/TestDFSClientCache.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/nfs/nfs3/TestDFSClientCache.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public void testEviction() throws IOException {
     conf.set(FileSystem.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, "hdfs://localhost");
 
     // Only one entry will be in the cache
-    final int MAX_CACHE_SIZE = 2;
+    final int MAX_CACHE_SIZE = 1;
 
     DFSClientCache cache = new DFSClientCache(conf, MAX_CACHE_SIZE);
 
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ public void testEviction() throws IOException {
 
     cache.getDfsClient("test2");
     assertTrue(isDfsClientClose(c1));
-    assertEquals(MAX_CACHE_SIZE - 1, cache.clientCache.size());
+    assertTrue("cache size should be the max size or less",
+        cache.clientCache.size() <= MAX_CACHE_SIZE);
   }
 
   @Test
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 05cb74517b..b57503aa77 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -493,6 +493,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7326: Add documentation for hdfs debug commands (Vijay Bhat via Colin
     P. McCabe)
 
+    HDFS-7598. Remove dependency on old version of guava in
+    TestDFSClientCache#testEviction. (Sangjin Lee via Colin P. McCabe)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-7454. Reduce memory footprint for AclEntries in NameNode.