diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 57fe545e30..cf390a1370 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3699. Increased RPC handlers for all YARN servers to reasonable
     values for working at scale. (Hitesh Shah via vinodkv)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3693. Added mapreduce.admin.user.env to mapred-default.xml.
+    (Roman Shapshonik via acmurthy) 
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     MAPREDUCE-3567. Extraneous JobConf objects in AM heap. (Vinod Kumar
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
index fc5b8b23f8..920f8df455 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/resources/mapred-default.xml
@@ -440,6 +440,16 @@
   </description>
 </property>
 
+<property>
+  <name>mapreduce.admin.user.env</name>
+  <value>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/lib/native</value>
+  <description>Expert: Additional execution environment entries for 
+  map and reduce task processes. This is not an additive property.
+  You must preserve the original value if you want your map and
+  reduce tasks to have access to native libraries (compression, etc). 
+  </description>
+</property>
+
 <property>
   <name>mapreduce.task.tmp.dir</name>
   <value>./tmp</value>