diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index e0c439b91f..dede9249c0 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ Release 2.1.0-beta - 2013-07-02
     HDFS-5003. TestNNThroughputBenchmark failed caused by existing directories.
     (Xi Fang via cnauroth)
 
+    HDFS-5018. Misspelled DFSConfigKeys#DFS_NAMENODE_STALE_DATANODE_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
+    in javadoc of DatanodeInfo#isStale(). (Ted Yu via jing9)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-347 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
     HDFS-4353. Encapsulate connections to peers in Peer and PeerServer classes.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/DatanodeInfo.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/DatanodeInfo.java
index df46cd6a0c..5172bc59f2 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/DatanodeInfo.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/DatanodeInfo.java
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ public AdminStates getAdminState() {
    * Check if the datanode is in stale state. Here if 
    * the namenode has not received heartbeat msg from a 
    * datanode for more than staleInterval (default value is
-   * {@link DFSConfigKeys#DFS_NAMENODE_STALE_DATANODE_INTERVAL_MILLI_DEFAULT}),
+   * {@link DFSConfigKeys#DFS_NAMENODE_STALE_DATANODE_INTERVAL_DEFAULT}),
    * the datanode will be treated as stale node.
    * 
    * @param staleInterval