diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a7d4adc29e..febbf6bbea 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11724. DistCp throws NPE when the target directory is root.
     (Lei Eddy Xu via Yongjun Zhang) 
 
+    HADOOP-11760. Fix typo of javadoc in DistCp. (Brahma Reddy Battula via
+    ozawa).
+
 Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp.java
index ada4b25f81..6921a1eea3 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp.java
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ protected Path getFileListingPath() throws IOException {
    * job staging directory
    *
    * @return Returns the working folder information
-   * @throws Exception - EXception if any
+   * @throws Exception - Exception if any
    */
   private Path createMetaFolderPath() throws Exception {
     Configuration configuration = getConf();