diff --git a/hadoop-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-client/pom.xml
index 8dea432589..1e2c7367b2 100644
--- a/hadoop-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-client/pom.xml
@@ -99,10 +99,6 @@
           <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
           <artifactId>core</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
-          <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
           <artifactId>avro-ipc</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index bb53cf25cc..61d25b45a6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -694,6 +694,8 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9455. HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS appended twice causes JVM failures.
     (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-9550. Remove aspectj dependency. (kkambatl via tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index c6105bc769..3938532c80 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -577,16 +577,6 @@
         <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
         <version>1.8.8</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
-        <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.5</version>
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
-        <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.5</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
         <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>