HDFS-6942. Fix typos in log messages. Contributed by Ray Chiang.
HDFS-2975. Rename with overwrite flag true can make NameNode to stuck in safemode on NN (crash + restart). (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
HADOOP-10956. Fix create-release script to include docs and necessary txt files. (kasha)
YARN-2394. FairScheduler: Configure fairSharePreemptionThreshold per queue. (Wei Yan via kasha)
HADOOP-10863. KMS should have a blacklist for decrypting EEKs. (asuresh via tucu)
MAPREDUCE-6063. Correct spill size calculation for spills wrapping the circular buffer. Contributed by zhihai xu.
HDFS-6848. Lack of synchronization on access to datanodeUuid in DataStorage#format. (Contributed by Xiaoyu Yao)
HDFS-6959 Make the HDFS home directory location customizable.  Contributed by Yongjun Zhang
HADOOP-11056. OsSecureRandom.setConf() might leak file descriptors.  Contributed by Yongjun Zhang.
HADOOP-11054. Add a KeyProvider instantiation based on a URI. (tucu)
HADOOP-11015. Http server/client utils to propagate and recreate Exceptions from server to client. (tucu)
HADOOP-11060. Create a CryptoCodec test that verifies interoperability between the JCE and OpenSSL implementations. (hitliuyi via tucu)
YARN-2509. Enable Cross Origin Filter for timeline server only and not all Yarn servers (Mit Desai via jeagles)
Fixing HDFS CHANGES.txt, missing HDFS-6905 entry
HADOOP-11063. KMS cannot deploy on Windows, because class names are too long. Contributed by Chris Nauroth.
YARN-2431. NM restart: cgroup is not removed for reacquired containers. Contributed by Jason Lowe
YARN-2511. Allowed all origins by default when CrossOriginFilter is enabled. Contributed by Jonathan Eagles.
HDFS-6996. SnapshotDiff report can hit IndexOutOfBoundsException when there are nested renamed directory/file. Contributed by Jing Zhao.
HDFS-6886. Use single editlog record for creating file + overwrite. Contributed by Yi Liu.
HDFS-6714. TestBlocksScheduledCounter#testBlocksScheduledCounter should shutdown cluster (vinayakumarb)