Please be sure to backport to this branch as necessary, but we should avoid any new big features there if possible. I will work toward preparing RC0 in the near future.
For any new features which you don't backport to branch-2.6, please set JIRA fixVersion to 2.7.0 going forward. Any questions, let me know. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28228 for the umbrella for 2.6.0 release. Thanks
