diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 6d7ffdf52d..832a3f35b5 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -314,7 +314,11 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5128. mapred-default.xml is missing a bunch of history server 
     configs. (sandyr via tucu)
 
-    MAPREDUCE-4898. FileOutputFormat.checkOutputSpecs and FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath incompatible with MR1. (rkanter via tucu)
+    MAPREDUCE-4898. FileOutputFormat.checkOutputSpecs and 
+    FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath incompatible with MR1. (rkanter via tucu)
+
+    MAPREDUCE-4932. mapreduce.job#getTaskCompletionEvents incompatible with 
+    Hadoop 1. (rkanter via tucu)
 
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
index abbe1e194c..90cf660fd2 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
@@ -659,8 +659,24 @@ public class Job extends JobContextImpl implements JobContext {
             startFrom, numEvents); 
       }
     });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get events indicating completion (success/failure) of component tasks.
+   *  
+   * @param startFrom index to start fetching events from
+   * @return an array of {@link TaskCompletionEvent}s
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public TaskCompletionEvent[] getTaskCompletionEvents(final int startFrom) 
+      throws IOException {
+    try {
+      return getTaskCompletionEvents(startFrom, 10);
+    } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(ie);
     }
-  
+  }
+
   /**
    * Kill indicated task attempt.
    *