diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c606f1cb998..165fc6f1c90 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1820,6 +1820,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     HADOOP-11837. AuthenticationFilter should destroy SignerSecretProvider in
     Tomcat deployments. (Bowen Zhang via wheat9)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
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+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
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diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 6bd2ec90729..4a5a047afbe 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2897,6 +2897,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
       HDFS-7700. Document quota support for storage types. (Xiaoyu Yao via
       Arpit Agarwal)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
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+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
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+  NEW FEATURES
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+  IMPROVEMENTS
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+  OPTIMIZATIONS
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diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 6c77c0d56be..01381a23a91 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -711,6 +711,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     MAPREDUCE-6285. ClientServiceDelegate should not retry upon
     AuthenticationException. (Jonathan Eagles via ozawa)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
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+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
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+  NEW FEATURES
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+  IMPROVEMENTS
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+  OPTIMIZATIONS
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diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 636db916222..729a67c6b9e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2112,6 +2112,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     YARN-3466. Fix RM nodes web page to sort by node HTTP-address, #containers 
     and node-label column (Jason Lowe via wangda)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
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+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
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+  NEW FEATURES
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+  IMPROVEMENTS
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+  OPTIMIZATIONS
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+  BUG FIXES
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