diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 85f36f5a5c7..5918629e618 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Hadoop Change Log
 
-Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9337. org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.getMount() does not work on Mac OS.
     (Ivan A. Veselovsky via atm)
 
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 24fffa168e5..e9bd7cb7703 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Hadoop HDFS Change Log
 
-Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
@@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-4544. Error in deleting blocks should not do check disk, for
     all types of errors. (Arpit Agarwal via suresh)
 
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 82331dc95bf..1ba466845bb 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Hadoop MapReduce Change Log
 
-Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
@@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     appropriately used and that on-disk segments are correctly sorted on
     file-size. (Anty Rao and Ravi Prakash via acmurthy) 
 
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 680f321d5a9..0a3ee69a28c 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Hadoop YARN Change Log
 
-Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
@@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     YARN-376. Fixes a bug which would prevent the NM knowing about completed
     containers and applications. (Jason Lowe via sseth)
 
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
     YARN-429. capacity-scheduler config missing from yarn-test artifact.
     (sseth via hitesh)