diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 54ee43a713e..3d2bf34b96a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -797,7 +797,19 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     HADOOP-11837. AuthenticationFilter should destroy SignerSecretProvider in
     Tomcat deployments. (Bowen Zhang via wheat9)
 
-Release 2.6.2 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.6.3 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
+Release 2.6.2 - 2015-10-21
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 59a1717987a..a5cb222a302 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1120,7 +1120,19 @@ 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 2.6.2 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.6.3 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
+Release 2.6.2 - 2015-10-21
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index c4a4d67bde8..50c54e01391 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -266,7 +266,19 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     MAPREDUCE-6285. ClientServiceDelegate should not retry upon
     AuthenticationException. (Jonathan Eagles via ozawa)
 
-Release 2.6.2 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.6.3 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
+Release 2.6.2 - 2015-10-21
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 1fb82925845..6aa33a1ad18 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -853,7 +853,19 @@ 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 2.6.2 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.6.3 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
+Release 2.6.2 - 2015-10-21
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES