diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b61ed16b3e..57c387ac7d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8481. update BUILDING.txt to talk about cmake rather than autotools.
     (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
 
-Release 2.0.0-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 5b41cd1ea4..fc9f484bd3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-3501. Checkpointing with security enabled will stop working
     after ticket lifetime expires. (atm via eli)
 
-Release 2.0.0-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 39ab403aa4..b46d8bf9b6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4307. TeraInputFormat calls FileSystem.getDefaultBlockSize()
     without a Path - Failure when using ViewFileSystem. (Ahmed Radwan via eli)
 
-Release 2.0.0-alpha - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES