diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 57c387ac7d..080811afa3 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8481. update BUILDING.txt to talk about cmake rather than autotools.
     (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
 
+    HADOOP-8485. Don't hardcode "Apache Hadoop 0.23" in the docs. (eli)
+
 Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm b/hadoop-project/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
index fe05eebbfe..32e708ec54 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
+++ b/hadoop-project/src/site/apt/index.apt.vm
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
   ---
   ${maven.build.timestamp}
   
-Apache Hadoop 0.23
+Apache Hadoop ${project.version}
 
-  Apache Hadoop 0.23 consists of significant improvements over the previous 
-  stable release (hadoop-0.20.205).
+  Apache Hadoop ${project.version} consists of significant
+  improvements over the previous stable release (hadoop-1.x).
 
   Here is a short overview of the improvments to both HDFS and MapReduce.