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The "HowToRelease" page has been changed by XiaoChen: https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease?action=diff&rev1=81&rev2=82 Comment: Add 1 step at the beginning of 'Creating the release candidate', according to HADOOP-12768. = Creating the release candidate (X.Y.Z-RC<N>) = These steps need to be performed to create the ''N''th RC for X.Y.Z, where ''N'' starts from 0. + 1. Check if the release year for Web UI footer is updated (the property {{{<release-year>}}} in {{{hadoop-project/pom.xml}}}). If not, create a jira to update the property value to the right year, and propagate the fix from trunk to all necessary branches. Consider the voting time needed before publishing, it's better to use the year of (current time + voting time) here, to be consistent with the publishing time. 1. Run mvn rat-check and fix any errors {{{ mvn apache-rat:check
