diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a5b2efd548b..bb53cf25cc8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9455. HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS appended twice causes JVM failures.
     (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
 
-Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25 
 
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diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 23b9bc73e9b..4d1bf3c29a9 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-4784. NPE in FSDirectory.resolvePath(). (Brandon Li via suresh)
 
-Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25
 
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diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index cb74b984cd1..7fa5c9e7d85 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5209. Fix units in a ShuffleScheduler log message.
     (Tsuyoshi OZAWA via cdouglas)
 
-Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index b5960298afd..90bffa6d5d3 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     YARN-646. Fix two typos in Fair Scheduler user guide. (Dapeng Sun via atm)
 
-Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.4-alpha - 2013-04-25 
 
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