diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 545a9f66b9..b8e872f767 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 8.9.5
+  - Fixed avatar alignment in new MR view. !5095
   - Fix diff comments not showing up in activity feed. !5069
   - Add index on both Award Emoji user and name. !5061
   - Downgrade to Redis 3.2.2 due to massive memory leak with Sidekiq. !5056
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/merge_requests.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/merge_requests.scss
index 124f4afaa0..d9756b66af 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/merge_requests.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/merge_requests.scss
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@
 
   .commit {
     margin: 0;
-    padding: 2px 0;
+    padding-top: 2px;
+    padding-bottom: 2px;
     list-style: none;
     &:hover {
       background: none;