diff --git a/build.properties b/build.properties
index 8a167711d53..ed40aad4cac 100644
--- a/build.properties
+++ b/build.properties
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@
 javac.source=1.5
 
 lib.version=2.8.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
+
+compatibility.baseline.version=2.7.3
+url.libbase=http://cloud.github.com/downloads/mongodb
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 9ee14470a2f..44c246308ef 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
 -->
 
-<project name="MongoDB Java Driver" default="compile" basedir=".">
+<project name="mongo-java-driver" default="compile" basedir=".">
 
     <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
         <classpath>
@@ -368,6 +368,22 @@ limitations under the License.
         <!--</clover-report>-->
     </target>
 
+
+    <target name="check-binary-compatibility" depends="jar">
+        <taskdef classpathref="classpath" resource="clirrtask.properties"/>
+
+        <property name="jar.baseline" value="mongo-${build.conf.compatibility.baseline.version}.jar"/>
+
+        <get src="${build.conf.url.libbase}/${ant.project.name}/${jar.baseline}" dest="${jar.baseline}"
+             verbose="true" usetimestamp="true"/>
+
+        <clirr failOnBinError="no" failOnSrcError="no">
+            <origfiles dir="." includes="${jar.baseline}"/>
+            <newfiles dir="." includes="mongo.jar"/>
+            <formatter type="plain" outfile="build/clirr.txt"/>
+        </clirr>
+    </target>
+
   <!-- NOTE: publish-local is now located in maven/ -->
 
 </project>
diff --git a/lib/clirr-core-0.6-uber.jar b/lib/clirr-core-0.6-uber.jar
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d4245f483de
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