diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6484a50d54bbdbfe4acfc843f3c40711261f6a7b..9ce90a6082ff62c50eee61ce7c860383a525ecd4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Added to scancel the ability to select jobs by account and qos
  -- Recycled the "-A" argument indicate "account" for all the commands that
     accept the --account argument (srun -A to allocate is no longer supported.)
+ -- Change sbatch response from "sbatch: Submitted batch job #" written to 
+    stderr to "Submitted batch job #" written to stdout.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre2
 =============================
diff --git a/src/sbatch/sbatch.c b/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
index 9dd518d5f1474fa84bc9012b806efdf7627b7d6b..b3bd1befdcb4d3969ff26f768b4f67ae5f15233e 100644
--- a/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
+++ b/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			error(msg);
 		sleep (++retries);
         }
-	info("Submitted batch job %d", resp->job_id);
+	printf("Submitted batch job %u\n", resp->job_id);
 	xfree(desc.script);
 	slurm_free_submit_response_response_msg(resp);
 	return 0;