diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index e161d7d0dc..a43a153ccb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
 
     HADOOP-11565. Add --slaves shell option (aw)
 
-    HADOOP-9477. Add posixGroups support for LDAP groups mapping service.
-    (Dapeng Sun via Yongjun Zhang)
-
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
     HADOOP-8017. Configure hadoop-main pom to get rid of M2E plugin execution
@@ -447,6 +444,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11226. Add a configuration to set ipc.Client's traffic class with
     IPTOS_LOWDELAY|IPTOS_RELIABILITY. (Gopal V via ozawa)
 
+    HADOOP-9477. Add posixGroups support for LDAP groups mapping service.
+    (Dapeng Sun via Yongjun Zhang)
+
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
     HADOOP-11692. Improve authentication failure WARN message to avoid user