diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 15ad43e08ba..1176a21cfaa 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11083. After refactoring of HTTP proxyuser to common, doAs param is 
     case sensitive. (tucu)
 
-Release 2.5.1 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index a11371aa3a7..212a9a2c976 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7042. Upgrade fails for Windows HA cluster due to file locks held during
     rename in JournalNode. (cnauroth)
 
-Release 2.5.1 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 0c065c56941..f1435d2dba2 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6070. yarn.app.am.resource.mb/cpu-vcores affects uber mode but
     is not documented (Tsuyoshi OZAWA via jlowe)
 
-Release 2.5.1 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index eac9f3c73c4..5262a221a24 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2534. FairScheduler: Potential integer overflow calculating totalMaxShare. 
     (Zhihai Xu via kasha)
 
-Release 2.5.1 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES