diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 6b33a2cb5c1..ddd07964f90 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2156,6 +2156,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     HADOOP-11837. AuthenticationFilter should destroy SignerSecretProvider in
     Tomcat deployments. (Bowen Zhang via wheat9)
 
+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 c5846b3c02c..17df171a656 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -3298,6 +3298,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
       HDFS-7700. Document quota support for storage types. (Xiaoyu Yao via
       Arpit Agarwal)
 
+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 af5c3f67a53..8594e1eb020 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -888,6 +888,18 @@ Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
     MAPREDUCE-6285. ClientServiceDelegate should not retry upon
     AuthenticationException. (Jonathan Eagles via ozawa)
 
+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 874397d6771..cc8f5f32b95 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1875,6 +1875,18 @@ 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 2.6.3 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.6.2 - 2015-10-21
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES