diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3adee445e5..cb49bc5343 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -617,6 +617,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10711. Cleanup some extra dependencies from hadoop-auth. (rkanter via tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-10479. Fix new findbugs warnings in hadoop-minikdc.
+    (Swarnim Kulkarni via wheat9)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - 2014-06-23 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-minikdc/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/minikdc/MiniKdc.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-minikdc/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/minikdc/MiniKdc.java
index 33ff1bb9c2..d3ea2e70cf 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-minikdc/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/minikdc/MiniKdc.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-minikdc/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/minikdc/MiniKdc.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 
 package org.apache.hadoop.minikdc;
+import org.apache.commons.io.Charsets;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.text.StrSubstitutor;
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -126,9 +127,9 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws  Exception {
               + file.getAbsolutePath());
     }
     Properties userConf = new Properties();
-    FileReader r = null;
+    InputStreamReader r = null;
     try {
-      r = new FileReader(file);
+      r = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), Charsets.UTF_8);
       userConf.load(r);
     } finally {
       if (r != null) {
@@ -438,7 +439,7 @@ private void initKDCServer() throws Exception {
     BufferedReader r = null;
 
     try {
-      r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is2));
+      r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is2, Charsets.UTF_8));
       String line = r.readLine();
 
       while (line != null) {