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    Preparing hbase release 2.6.3RC0; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and 
RELEASENOTES.md
    
    Signed-off-by: Duo Zhang <[email protected]>
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 # HBASE Changelog
 
+## Release 2.6.3 - Unreleased (as of 2025-06-21)
+
+
+
+### NEW FEATURES:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-29131](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29131) | Introduce 
the option for post-compaction validation of HFiles |  Major | Compaction |
+| [HBASE-28368](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28368) | Backport 
"HBASE-27693 Support for Hadoop's LDAP Authentication mechanism (Web UI only)" 
to branch-2 |  Major | security, UI |
+| [HBASE-29244](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29244) | Support 
admin users acl setting with LDAP (Web UI only) |  Major | security, UI |
+
+
+### IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-29097](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29097) | Add error 
logging when put creation fails |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29123](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29123) | A faster 
CodecPool for HBase |  Minor | HFile, io |
+| [HBASE-28836](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28836) | 
Parallelize the archival of compacted files |  Major | regionserver |
+| [HBASE-28410](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28410) | Upgrade 
curator to 5.7.1 |  Minor | Zookeeper |
+| [HBASE-29107](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29107) | shell: 
Improve 'count' performance |  Major | shell |
+| [HBASE-29135](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29135) | ZStandard 
decompression can operate directly on ByteBuffs |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29160](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29160) | Cache 
result of getRegionNameAsString() |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29148](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29148) | 
BufferedMutator should be able to flush after buffering a certain number of 
mutations |  Minor | Client |
+| [HBASE-28388](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28388) | Avoid 
index based field sorting in tablesorter |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-29178](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29178) | Some 
ZKUtil optimizations |  Major | Zookeeper |
+| [HBASE-29162](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29162) | Fix Maven 
build warnings |  Minor | build |
+| [HBASE-29201](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29201) | Add OWASP 
Dependency Check to check 3rd party dependencies for known vulnerabilities |  
Major | build |
+| [HBASE-28832](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28832) | Upgrade 
from bootstrap 3.4.1 to non vulnerable version 5.3.3 |  Major | security, UI |
+| [HBASE-29103](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29103) | Avoid 
excessive allocations during reverse scanning when seeking to next row |  Major 
| Performance |
+| [HBASE-28754](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28754) | Verify 
the first argument passed to compaction\_switch |  Major | shell |
+| [HBASE-29168](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29168) | Add 
configurable throttling of region moves in CacheAwareLoadBalancer. |  Major | . 
|
+| [HBASE-29134](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29134) | Optimize 
bulkload backup process for incremental backups |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29191](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29191) | Use 
MetaRpcReadTimeout when accessing Meta replicas |  Trivial | . |
+| [HBASE-29112](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29112) | Apply 
KeyOnlyFilter to RowCounter |  Minor | mapreduce |
+| [HBASE-29258](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29258) | Change 
log level for 'Got brand-new ByteBuffDecompressor' in CodecPool to DEBUG 
instead of INFO |  Major | regionserver |
+| [HBASE-29238](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29238) | 
ExportSnapshot support specify storage policy |  Minor | snapshots |
+| [HBASE-29253](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29253) | Avoid 
allocating a new closure on every row processed by StoreScanner |  Minor | 
Scanners |
+| [HBASE-29193](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29193) | Allow 
ZstdByteBuffDecompressor to take direct ByteBuffer as input and heap ByteBuffer 
as output, or vice versa |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29090](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29090) | Add 
server-side load metrics to client results |  Major | Client, metrics |
+| [HBASE-29218](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29218) | Reduce 
calls to Configuration#get() in decompression path |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29252](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29252) | Reduce 
allocations in RowIndexSeekerV1 |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29249](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29249) | Allow for 
BlockCache implementations to define dynamic properties |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29276](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29276) | Compute 
and display hit ratio by configurable, granular time periods |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29284](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29284) | Add 
Region name to OutOfOrderScannerNextException message |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29314](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29314) | 
TableDescriptorChecker should verify CF configuration set via setConfiguration 
|  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29307](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29307) | Add 
status command to hbase-daemon.sh for process state checking |  Major | scripts 
|
+| [HBASE-29323](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29323) | Use 
Priority Handler for all RegionServerStatus rpc at Master |  Major | master |
+| [HBASE-29229](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29229) | Throttles 
should support specific restrictions for atomic workloads |  Major | Quotas |
+| [HBASE-29222](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29222) | Avoid 
expensive tracing calls if tracing is disabled |  Major | tracing |
+| [HBASE-27802](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27802) | Manage 
static javascript resources programatically |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-29273](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29273) | Remove 
deprecated boxed primitive constructors in some test classes |  Minor | test |
+| [HBASE-29231](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29231) | Throttles 
should support limits based on handler thread usage time |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29392](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29392) | Bump 
requests from 2.32.0 to 2.32.4 in /dev-support/flaky-tests |  Major | 
dependabot, scripts, security |
+| [HBASE-29029](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29029) | Refactor 
BackupHFileCleaner + fix test |  Minor | backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29279](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29279) | Allow 
throttling alter operation via table configuration |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29390](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29390) | Too many 
logs in AsyncBatchRpcRetryingCaller when hitting RegionTooBusyException |  
Major | asyncclient, Client |
+
+
+### BUG FIXES:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-28627](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28627) | REST 
ScannerModel doesn't support includeStartRow/includeStopRow |  Major | REST |
+| [HBASE-29038](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29038) | NPE in 
processRS.jsp due to failure to get value from MBean |  Minor | regionserver |
+| [HBASE-29066](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29066) | Fix NPE 
in rits.jsp when regions are not open |  Minor | UI |
+| [HBASE-29157](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29157) | Sorting 
not working in the Table Regions section |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-29174](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29174) | NPE on 
MemstoreFlusher when flush is triggered by too many wals after a wal rolling |  
Major | . |
+| [HBASE-25839](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25839) | Bulk 
Import fails with java.io.IOException: Type mismatch in value from map |  Major 
| mapreduce |
+| [HBASE-29172](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29172) | Fix bug 
in ZstdByteBuffDecompressor |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29189](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29189) | NPE in 
RawAsyncTableAdmin.isTableDisabled |  Major | Admin, Client |
+| [HBASE-28984](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28984) | Alter 
table causes AccessDeniedException at the client side |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29183](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29183) | Fix 
flakeyness on TestVerifyBucketCacheFile |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29187](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29187) | Use 
double quote instead of single quote in Jenkinsfile scripts when there are env 
vars |  Major | jenkins, scripts |
+| [HBASE-29080](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29080) | Validate 
Negotiated SASL QoP Against Requested |  Major | rpc, sasl |
+| [HBASE-29158](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29158) | Unknown 
checksum type code exception occurred while reading HFileBlock |  Major | HFile 
|
+| [HBASE-29057](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29057) | Backport 
missing changes in HBASE-28023 to branch-2 |  Major | integration tests |
+| [HBASE-29200](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29200) | Bump 
netty4 to 4.1.119.Final in main repo |  Major | dependencies |
+| [HBASE-28983](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28983) | Static 
resources are not loaded on REST web UI pages in dev mode |  Major | REST, UI |
+| [HBASE-29214](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29214) | Typo in 
AsyncMasterRequestRpcRetryingCaller which makes us fail to clear the master 
stub cache |  Major | Admin, asyncclient, Client |
+| [HBASE-29215](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29215) | View 
block cache as JSON failing for BucketCache implementation |  Major | 
BlockCache, regionserver, UI |
+| [HBASE-29234](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29234) | Handle 
java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException in HFileSystem |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28997](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28997) | Table 
Regions Total Locality value on the UI shows 1.0 even though some of the 
regions locality value is zero |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-28569](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28569) | Race 
condition during WAL splitting leading to corrupt recovered.edits |  Major | 
regionserver |
+| [HBASE-29239](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29239) | 
Subsequent runs of re-splitting HFiles can fail because we don't cleanup the MR 
directory |  Major | backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29246](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29246) | Update 
commons-lang3 to 3.17.0 |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29243](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29243) | Fix 
BucketCache.notifyFileCachingComplete to also account for ENCODED\_DATA block 
type |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29195](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29195) | Get 
Column value with timestamp is giving wrong result as not found |  Major | REST 
|
+| [HBASE-29156](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29156) | Sort 
options missing in the Table Regions section on server deployments with 
security mods |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-29248](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29248) | 
HBASE-28529 made an incompatible change to hbase.zookeeper.property handling |  
Major | Zookeeper |
+| [HBASE-29259](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29259) | Master 
crash when loading procedures |  Critical | proc-v2, Region Assignment |
+| [HBASE-29251](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29251) | Procedure 
gets stuck if the procedure state cannot be persisted |  Critical | . |
+| [HBASE-25338](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25338) | Client 
app getting "Failed to load SIMPLE, KERBEROS, and DIGEST authentication 
providers. Classpath is not sane." errors |  Major | Client |
+| [HBASE-29207](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29207) | The 
backup system table should be considered a system table |  Major | 
backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29204](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29204) | 
BufferedMutatorParams#clone() should copy the requestAttributes field |  Minor 
| . |
+| [HBASE-29003](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29003) | Proper 
bulk load tracking |  Critical | backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29281](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29281) | Atomic 
request throttles are missing QuotaSettingsFactory support |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29254](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29254) | 
StoreScanner returns incorrect row after flush due to topChanged behavior |  
Major | Scanners |
+| [HBASE-29282](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29282) | Regions 
are left in CLOSED state after merging |  Critical | proc-v2, Region Assignment 
|
+| [HBASE-29271](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29271) | 
TestIncrementalBackupWithBulkLoad is flaky |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29294](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29294) | Master 
crashed because of failing to update master region |  Major | master |
+| [HBASE-29313](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29313) | 
RecoverableZooKeeper.getZooKeeper() returns null for new object |  Minor | 
Zookeeper |
+| [HBASE-29181](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29181) | 
TestNettyTLSIPCFileWatcher.testReplaceServerKeystore fails for some 
storeFileTypes |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29280](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29280) | Bug in 
RawAsyncTableImpl#coprocessorServiceUntilComplete retry logic |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29331](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29331) | 
TestDefaultQuota fails because of pseudo-race condition |  Major | Quotas |
+| [HBASE-29301](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29301) | Fix 
AggregrateImplementation pagination logic |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29300](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29300) | Upgrade 
Tomcat to 9.0.104 |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29093](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29093) | Load 
userSnapshots.jsp only on master status page |  Minor | UI |
+| [HBASE-29326](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29326) | Do not 
prevent prefetch from running if the given file has already been fully cached 
before |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29345](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29345) | 
testWALClosureFailureAndCleanup fails due to missing lease recovery wait during 
close |  Major | wal |
+| [HBASE-29315](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29315) | Cancel 
Split/MergeTableRegionProcedure if table modification is in progress |  Minor | 
proc-v2 |
+| [HBASE-29357](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29357) | 
PerformanceEvaluation: Read tests should not drop existing table |  Major | PE |
+| [HBASE-29283](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29283) | 
Replication MetricsSource.sizeOfHFileRefsQueue metrics not updated correctly 
after remove\_peer |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29365](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29365) | Improve 
option parser of PerformanceEvaluation |  Major | PE |
+| [HBASE-29363](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29363) | 
CompactSplit attempts to split non-default regions |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29361](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29361) | Snapshot 
coprocessor hooks called inside SnapshotProcedure |  Minor | Coprocessors, 
snapshots |
+| [HBASE-29369](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29369) | Fix 
TestZKPermissionWatcher |  Major | security, test |
+| [HBASE-29362](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29362) | Fix 
Incorrect JSON Format in RegionServer Web Console Block Cache Status |  Trivial 
| . |
+| [HBASE-29380](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29380) | Two 
concurrent remove peer requests may hang |  Blocker | proc-v2, Replication |
+| [HBASE-29384](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29384) | Async 
Profiler occasionally fails to capture profiling data |  Major | master, 
regionserver |
+| [HBASE-29377](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29377) | 
ChaosService: Doesn't Support ZK Quorum Strings with Specified Ports |  Minor | 
integration tests |
+| [HBASE-29245](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29245) | Region 
reopening batch size not increased when backoff is zero |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29388](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29388) | mvn 
spotless:apply changes line endings (CRLF to LF) on Windows |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29385](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29385) | Very slow 
performance when using AsyncAggregationClient for large scans |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29346](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29346) | Multiple 
Snapshot restores on same restoreDir ends up in Dataloss |  Critical | 
snapshots |
+| [HBASE-29146](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29146) | 
Incremental backups can fail due to not cleaning up the MR bulkload output 
directory |  Major | backup&restore |
+
+
+### SUB-TASKS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-29180](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29180) | Apply 
fail-fast retry limit for UnknownHostException |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29137](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29137) | Add 
config type validation |  Major | conf |
+| [HBASE-29344](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29344) | Update 
spotless to 2.44.4 |  Major | build |
+| [HBASE-29319](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29319) | Apply 
fail-fast retry limit for ConnectException |  Major | . |
+
+
+### OTHER:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-29026](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29026) | Replace 
some deprecated calls |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-29163](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29163) | Fix 
Github PR builds are broken |  Major | build |
+| [HBASE-29167](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29167) | Upgrade 
vega and its related js libraries |  Major | security, UI |
+| [HBASE-29182](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29182) | Bump 
jinja2 from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6 in /dev-support/flaky-tests |  Major | dependabot, 
scripts, security |
+| [HBASE-29316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29316) | Backport 
HBASE-29292 to branch-2 |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-29293](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29293) | Upgrade 
to latest opentelemetry libraries |  Major | dependencies, tracing |
+| [HBASE-29327](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29327) | 
Dependency manage byte-buddy and bump it to 1.15.11 |  Major | dependencies |
+| [HBASE-29360](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29360) | Bump 
JRuby to version 9.3.15.0 in branch-2.6 |  Major | jruby, shell |
+| [HBASE-29317](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29317) | Bump 
hbase-thirdparty to 4.1.11 |  Major | dependencies, thirdparty |
+
+
 ## Release 2.6.2 - Unreleased (as of 2025-02-14)
 
 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
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--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -16,6 +16,116 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 -->
+# HBASE  2.6.3 Release Notes
+
+These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, 
important issues, features, and major improvements.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29148](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29148) | *Minor* | 
**BufferedMutator should be able to flush after buffering a certain number of 
mutations**
+
+Introduces new configuration option hbase.client.write.buffer.maxmutations. If 
set to a positive integer, this will cause BufferedMutator to flush mutations 
after that number of mutations have been buffered. The default is -1, which 
disables this behavior. If you use hbase.rpc.rows.size.threshold.reject on your 
server, it's recommended that you set hbase.client.write.buffer.maxmutations on 
your client to a value at or below your server's 
hbase.rpc.rows.warning.threshold.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29131](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29131) | *Major* | 
**Introduce the option for post-compaction validation of HFiles**
+
+Introduces the option for an HStore to fully read the file it just wrote after 
a flush or compaction. It does this by walking the block index and reading the 
first cell off of each data block. During testing, this was observed to have a 
negative impact on compaction queue depth of about 20%.
+
+To enable this feature, set hbase.hstore.validate.read\_fully=true. This is an 
HStore configuration feature, so it can be enabled in hbase-site.xml, in the 
TableDescriptor, or in the ColumnFamilyDescriptor.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29168](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29168) | *Major* | 
**Add configurable throttling of region moves in CacheAwareLoadBalancer.**
+
+This introduces region moving throttling for LoadBalancer implementations.  
The throttling time is configurable by the 
"hbase.master.balancer.move.throttlingMillis" property and default value is 
60000 millis.
+In this change, the only balancer implementation applying throttling is the 
CacheAwareLoadBalancer. All other balancers just inherit the noop default 
provided within the LoadBalancer interface.
+
+The CacheAwareLoadBalancer throttling implementation performs throttling only 
for regions moving to target server with region cached ratio below the 
threshold configurable by 
"hbase.master.balancer.stochastic.throttling.cacheRatio" (80% by default).
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29248](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29248) | *Major* | 
**HBASE-28529 made an incompatible change to hbase.zookeeper.property handling**
+
+Originally, hbase properties with the "hbase.zookeeper.property." prefix were 
set as System properties, later ZKClientConfig properties by replacing the 
"hbase.zookeeper.property." prefix with a "zookeeper." prefix.
+
+This was accidentally changed in Hbase 2.5.9 and 2.6.0, so that 
"hbase.zookeeper.property." was simply removed, which broke configurations that 
relied on the original behaviour.
+
+HBase 2.5.12 and 2.6.3 reverts the accidental change, and restores the 
original behaviour of replacing the "hbase.zookeeper.property." prefix with a 
"zookeeper." prefix for the ZK client config properties.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29238](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29238) | *Minor* | 
**ExportSnapshot support specify storage policy**
+
+This feature supports specifying the storage type for different column 
families by adding a -storage-policy.
+
+The format is like this: a=HOT, which is for a single case. If there are 
multiple column families, use: a=HOT&b=ALL\_SSD. This means the storage type 
for column family a is HOT, and for column family b it is ALL\_SSD, separated 
by &.
+
+Additionally, if there is a column family c for which you haven’t specified a 
storage policy (unspecified), HDFS will decide the storage type automatically.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29137](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29137) | *Major* | 
**Add config type validation**
+
+Introduces the ConfigKey class for annotating configuration parameter 
constants with type information and optional validation predicates. The 
information is used by TableDescriptorChecker to detect errors in CREATE and 
ALTER requests. Many commonly used configuration parameters are now annotated.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29276](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29276) | *Major* | 
**Compute and display hit ratio by configurable, granular time periods**
+
+This proposes two additional properties:
+
+1) "hbase.blockcache.stats.periods" which allows for defining a multiple 
window period;
+
+2)  "hbase.blockcache.stats.period.minute" which defines the length of each of 
these periods (in minutes);
+
+If "hbase.blockcache.stats.periods" is defined and is greater than one, it 
creates a scheduled executor that rolls the metrics calculation at 
"hbase.blockcache.stats.period.minute" rate.
+
+This will calculate hit ratio for each of the last periods (as defined by 
hbase.blockcache.stats.periods), accounting for only the hits and requests 
occurred during the interval of the given period (as defined by 
hbase.blockcache.stats.period.minute).
+
+For example, assuming default values for these two properties (12 and 5 
minutes, respectively), the RS UI would display the hit ratio for each of the 
last twelve, five minutes periods, in the L2 Cache stats tab. It also displays 
the aggregated last hour hit ratio (by counting the 12\*5mins periods).
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29307](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29307) | *Major* | 
**Add status command to hbase-daemon.sh for process state checking**
+
+Introduces 'status' command in hbase-daemon.sh to support script-friendly 
HBase process checks.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29344](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29344) | *Major* | 
**Update spotless to 2.44.4**
+
+Bump spotless plugin version to 2.44.4.
+
+This version of spotless does not support java 8 now, so at least you should 
use java 11 if you want to use spotless to format the code.
+
+For normal build and run, we do not run spotless, so you can still use java 8 
to build and run hbase 2.x.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-28368](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28368) | *Major* | 
**Backport "HBASE-27693 Support for Hadoop's LDAP Authentication mechanism (Web 
UI only)" to branch-2**
+
+Support for LDAP Authentication in the HBase Web UI via Hadoop's 
LdapAuthenticationFilter.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29244](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29244) | *Major* | 
**Support admin users acl setting with LDAP (Web UI only)**
+
+We now support configuring an LDAP user as admin for all HBase Web UIs, 
privileged pages can only be accessed by the admin user.
+
+
+
 # HBASE  2.6.2 Release Notes
 
 These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, 
important issues, features, and major improvements.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9f1bba7c99e..d6ee1469714 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <revision>2.6.3-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+    <revision>2.6.3</revision>
     <!-- override on command line to have generated LICENSE files include
          diagnostic info for verifying notice requirements -->
     <license.debug.print.included>false</license.debug.print.included>

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