diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index cde6f8b586..a662fb9b6c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -584,6 +584,8 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-11007. Reinstate building of ant tasks support. (jlowe via kihwal)
 
+    HADOOP-11178. Fix findbugs exclude file. (Arun Suresh via wang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-10838. Byte array native checksumming. (James Thomas via todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
index 9b55be0cd4..8de3c378bd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
     </Match>
     <Match>
       <!-- protobuf generated code -->
-      <Class name="~org\.apache\.hadoop\.tracing\.TraceAdminPB.*">
+      <Class name="~org\.apache\.hadoop\.tracing\.TraceAdminPB.*"/>
     </Match>
 
     <!--