diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f70a3fa2a..4c1b0040b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - hadoop: Add patch "HADOOP-18516: Support Fixed SAS Token for ABFS Authentication" ([#852]).
 - hbase: Add hadoop-azure.jar to the lib directory to support the Azure Blob Filesystem and
   the Azure Data Lake Storage ([#853]).
+- hbase: Add hostname as required by the graceful-stop.sh script ([#876]).
 - kafka: Add cyrus-sasl-gssapi package for kerberos ([#874]).
 
 ### Changed
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#867]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/867
 [#868]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/868
 [#874]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/874
+[#876]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/876
 [#877]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/877
 
 ## [24.7.0] - 2024-07-24
diff --git a/hbase/Dockerfile b/hbase/Dockerfile
index 961f3b2ad..f2ee8d2e0 100644
--- a/hbase/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/Dockerfile
@@ -332,7 +332,11 @@ microdnf update
 
 # The tar and python packages are required by the Phoenix command line.
 # We add zip and gzip because tar without compression is seldom useful.
+# TODO: maybe hostname is useful enough to have in stackable-base ?
+# hostname is required by the hbase/bin/graceful_stop.sh to identify the actual name
+# of the region server that is being shut down.
 microdnf install \
+  hostname \
   gzip \
   python \
   python-pip \