diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 94595d06ab..974c7762d8 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.2.11 Release Engineering
 		non-zero number of items to process with only one replica.
 	Fixed strdup use in libldap/request.c
 	Fixed NULL prefix bug in libldap/ufn.c
+	Fixed slapd_shutdown extern reference bug (ITS#527)
 	Build Environment
 		Changed LDBM directory to $localstatedir/openldap-ldbm
 
diff --git a/servers/slapd/proto-slap.h b/servers/slapd/proto-slap.h
index f0f671b1b4..988ca20e58 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/proto-slap.h
+++ b/servers/slapd/proto-slap.h
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ extern int		global_schemacheck;
 extern int		lber_debug;
 extern int		ldap_syslog;
 extern int		num_conns;
-extern int		slapd_shutdown;
 extern long		num_bytes_sent;
 extern long		num_entries_sent;
 extern long		ops_completed;