diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index aac3c5e735d..10ae05a537d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -851,6 +851,18 @@ 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 9a8aacbf2cb..8af384c0feb 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1212,6 +1212,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
       HDFS-7824. GetContentSummary API and its namenode implementation for
       Storage Type Quota/Usage. (Xiaoyu Yao via Arpit Agarwal)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
+
+  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 927d4d7f5a3..097d27e7edb 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -312,6 +312,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     MAPREDUCE-6285. ClientServiceDelegate should not retry upon
     AuthenticationException. (Jonathan Eagles via ozawa)
 
+Release 2.6.5 - UNRELEASED
+
+  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 0f0cdad6117..1da6fb7152d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -946,6 +946,18 @@ 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
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
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+  BUG FIXES
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