diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index fb2daeb711..c697be1c51 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10968. hadoop native build fails to detect java_libarch on
     ppc64le (Dinar Valeev via Colin Patrick McCabe)
 
-Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.0 - 2014-08-11
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f20b1246ca..8bdfb0e8bc 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6870. Blocks and INodes could leak for Rename with overwrite flag. (Yi
     Liu via jing9)
 
-Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.0 - 2014-08-11
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 4cef955589..5cc965a0b3 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6012. DBInputSplit creates invalid ranges on Oracle. 
     (Wei Yan via kasha)
 
-Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.0 - 2014-08-11
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index a57171ad7e..6b5c0410ef 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2034. Description for yarn.nodemanager.localizer.cache.target-size-mb
     is incorrect (Chen He via jlowe)
 
-Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
+Release 2.5.0 - 2014-08-11
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES