The release notes need to be updated for every release, chances are we just forgot to do this for 2.6. The release notes are mentioned in the HowToRelease wiki page:
https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM, J. Rottinghuis <jrottingh...@gmail.com> wrote: > There seems to be a gap in our release notes publishing. > > Up to > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.4.1/ > The release notes were updated for each release. > > Then these three are the same: > https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.5.2/ > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.0/index.html > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.1/index.html > > and this one is actually updated again: > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/ > > Is this due to a missed step in the release process? > > Cheers, > > Joep >