diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index dbfa48243b..d99936f9f9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -685,6 +685,9 @@ Release 2.9.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12662. The build should fail if a -Dbundle option fails (Kai Zheng
     via cmccabe)
 
+    HADOOP-12749. Create a threadpoolexecutor that overrides afterExecute to
+    log uncaught exceptions/errors. (Sidharta Seethana via vvasudev)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-12605. Fix intermittent failure of TestIPC.testIpcWithReaderQueuing