diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 9e63b3e147..24d87d66b8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-7810. move hadoop archive to core from tools. (tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-7892. IPC logs too verbose after "RpcKind" introduction (todd)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-7761. Improve the performance of raw comparisons. (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
index 8fdb55221b..e40f688df4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ public static void registerProtocolEngine(RpcKind rpcKind,
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("ReRegistration of rpcKind: " +
           rpcKind);      
     }
-    LOG.info("rpcKind=" + rpcKind + 
+    LOG.debug("rpcKind=" + rpcKind + 
         ", rpcRequestWrapperClass=" + rpcRequestWrapperClass + 
         ", rpcInvoker=" + rpcInvoker);
   }