diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 132e4c00aa..219ef25f30 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -884,6 +884,18 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12076. Incomplete Cache Mechanism in CredentialProvider API.
     (Larry McCay via cnauroth)
 
+Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
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   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 94477fe7af..b89e10c0e3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -968,6 +968,18 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8546. Prune cached replicas from DatanodeDescriptor state on replica
     invalidation. (wang)
 
+Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 4df3b44398..785fce853f 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -512,6 +512,18 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6413. TestLocalJobSubmission is failing with unknown host
     (zhihai xu via jlowe)
 
+Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
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   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index cb6deb1e3b..714bfdc0e4 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -565,6 +565,18 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3859. LeafQueue doesn't print user properly for application add.
     (Varun Saxena via devaraj)
 
+Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES