diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index e432da0cc1..42eed140de 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1228,6 +1228,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8932. NPE thrown in NameNode when try to get TotalSyncCount metric
     before editLogStream initialization. (Surendra Singh Lilhore via xyao)
 
+    HDFS-8682. Should not remove decommissioned node,while calculating the
+    number of live/dead decommissioned node. (J. Andreina via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index f1738bbbeb..f4952f7803 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -5070,7 +5070,7 @@ public int getNumDeadDataNodes() {
   @Override // FSNamesystemMBean
   public int getNumDecomLiveDataNodes() {
     final List<DatanodeDescriptor> live = new ArrayList<DatanodeDescriptor>();
-    getBlockManager().getDatanodeManager().fetchDatanodes(live, null, true);
+    getBlockManager().getDatanodeManager().fetchDatanodes(live, null, false);
     int liveDecommissioned = 0;
     for (DatanodeDescriptor node : live) {
       liveDecommissioned += node.isDecommissioned() ? 1 : 0;
@@ -5081,7 +5081,7 @@ public int getNumDecomLiveDataNodes() {
   @Override // FSNamesystemMBean
   public int getNumDecomDeadDataNodes() {
     final List<DatanodeDescriptor> dead = new ArrayList<DatanodeDescriptor>();
-    getBlockManager().getDatanodeManager().fetchDatanodes(null, dead, true);
+    getBlockManager().getDatanodeManager().fetchDatanodes(null, dead, false);
     int deadDecommissioned = 0;
     for (DatanodeDescriptor node : dead) {
       deadDecommissioned += node.isDecommissioned() ? 1 : 0;