Preparing hbase release 2.6.2RC1; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md

Signed-off-by: Duo Zhang <zhangduo@apache.org>

Author: Apache9

CHANGES.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
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 # HBASE Changelog
 
-## Release 2.6.2 - Unreleased (as of 2025-02-05)
+## Release 2.6.2 - Unreleased (as of 2025-02-14)
 
 
 
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 | [HBASE-29071](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29071) | StochasticLoadBalancer candidate generators should use a Map, rather than ordinal based indexing |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-29099](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29099) | Avoid expensive BlockCacheKey.toString() calls when tracing is disabled |  Major | Performance |
 | [HBASE-29047](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29047) | Remove redundant methods in TestMasterObserver |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-29045](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29045) | Support new async-profiler \> 2.9 version |  Major | profiler |
 
 
 ### BUG FIXES:
@@ -86,6 +87,10 @@
 | [HBASE-29089](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29089) | Remove optional flag from spymemcached dependency |  Minor | BlockCache |
 | [HBASE-29041](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29041) | Set UncaughtException Handler for RegionServer ExecutorService |  Minor | regionserver |
 | [HBASE-29111](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29111) | Data loss in table cloned from a snapshot |  Major | dataloss, snapshots |
+| [HBASE-29122](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29122) | Some modules are built with Hadoop 3.0-SNAPSHOT on branch-2.x |  Critical | . |
+| [HBASE-29114](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29114) | Restoring to original splits fails if backups are on separate FileSystem |  Major | backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29124](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29124) | Restoring to original splits fails if bulkloads are on separate FileSystem |  Major | backup&restore |
+| [HBASE-29117](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29117) | Kerby version conflict with Hadoop 3.4 |  Major | dependencies |
 
 
 ### SUB-TASKS:

RELEASENOTES.md

@@ -112,6 +112,15 @@ Skips unnecessary BlockCacheKey.toString() calls when tracing is disabled
 Fixes a bug which caused the balancer to always run on HMaster startup.
 
 
+---
+
+* [HBASE-29117](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29117) | *Major* | **Kerby version conflict with Hadoop 3.4**
+
+HBase now uses Kerby 1.0.1when built with Hadoop 2.x and Kerby 2.3.0 when built with Hadoop 3.x.
+This works for the default Hadoop 3.4.x. However, when building HBase with Hadoop 3.2.x or 3.3.x , the kerby.version property must be manually overriden, i.e.
+"mvn clean install -Dhadoop-three.version=3.3.6 -Dkerby.version=1.0.1"
+
+
 
 # HBASE  2.6.1 Release Notes
 

pom.xml

@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <revision>2.6.3-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+    <revision>2.6.2</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>