diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 59a744338d..b225cdf392 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  * Fix bad default for min/max timestamp in SSTableMetadata (CASSANDRA-5372)
  * Fix cf name extraction from manifest in Directories.migrateFile() (CASSANDRA-5242)
  * Support pluggable internode authentication (CASSANDRA-5401)
+ * Replace mistaken usage of commons-logging with slf4j (CASSANDRA-5464)
 
 
 1.1.10
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CassandraStorage.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CassandraStorage.java
index f362fca68e..55ccbb904f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CassandraStorage.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CassandraStorage.java
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.*;
 
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-
 import org.apache.cassandra.auth.IAuthenticator;
 import org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException;
 import org.apache.cassandra.db.Column;
@@ -49,6 +46,8 @@ import org.apache.pig.ResourceSchema.ResourceFieldSchema;
 import org.apache.thrift.TDeserializer;
 import org.apache.thrift.TException;
 import org.apache.thrift.TSerializer;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * A LoadStoreFunc for retrieving data from and storing data to Cassandra
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ public class CassandraStorage extends LoadFunc implements StoreFuncInterface, Lo
     private final static String PARTITION_FILTER_SIGNATURE = "cassandra.partition.filter";
 
     private final static ByteBuffer BOUND = ByteBufferUtil.EMPTY_BYTE_BUFFER;
-    private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(CassandraStorage.class);
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CassandraStorage.class);
 
     private ByteBuffer slice_start = BOUND;
     private ByteBuffer slice_end = BOUND;