diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index be9c2ee447..3dcc98b6a8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@
 
 
 2.1.0
+ * Upgrade to Pig 0.12.1 (CASSANDRA-6556)
 Merged from 2.0:
  * Fix NPE in StreamTransferTask.createMessageForRetry() (CASSANDRA-7323)
 Merged from 1.2:
-* Use LOCAL_ONE for non-superuser auth queries (CASSANDRA-7328)
+ * Use LOCAL_ONE for non-superuser auth queries (CASSANDRA-7328)
 
 
 2.1.0-rc1
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 3f07cbc38c..309c2d8464 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
           	<exclusion groupId="org.mortbay.jetty" artifactId="servlet-api"/>
           </dependency>
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.hadoop" artifactId="hadoop-minicluster" version="1.0.3"/>
-          <dependency groupId="org.apache.pig" artifactId="pig" version="0.11.1"/>
+          <dependency groupId="org.apache.pig" artifactId="pig" version="0.12.1"/>
           <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="4.0.0"/>
 
           <dependency groupId="net.sourceforge.cobertura" artifactId="cobertura" version="${cobertura.version}">