diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad60520..8879d49 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,26 +1,24 @@
+<!---
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+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
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+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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+-->
+
 # HBase Changelog
 
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-## Release connector-1.0.0 - Unreleased (as of 2019-04-23)
+## Release connector-1.0.0 - Unreleased (as of 2019-04-26)
 
 
 
@@ -28,24 +26,57 @@
 
 | JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
 |:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
-| [HBASE-15320](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15320) | HBase connector for Kafka Connect |  Major | Replication |
+| [HBASE-13992](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13992) | Integrate SparkOnHBase into HBase |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14150](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14150) | Add BulkLoad functionality to HBase-Spark Module |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14181](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14181) | Add Spark DataFrame DataSource to HBase-Spark Module |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14340](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14340) | Add second bulk load option to Spark Bulk Load to send puts as the value |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14849](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14849) | Add option to set block cache to false on SparkSQL executions |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15572](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15572) | Adding optional timestamp semantics to HBase-Spark |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17933](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17933) | [hbase-spark]  Support Java api for bulkload |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15320](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15320) | HBase connector for Kafka Connect |  Major | hbase-connectors, Replication |
 
 
 ### IMPROVEMENTS:
 
 | JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
 |:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-14515](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14515) | Allow spark module unit tests to be skipped with a profile |  Minor | build, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14158](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14158) | Add documentation for Initial Release for HBase-Spark Module integration |  Major | documentation, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14159](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14159) | Resolve warning introduced by HBase-Spark module |  Minor | build, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15434](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15434) | [findbugs] Exclude scala generated source and protobuf generated code in hbase-spark module |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-16638](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16638) | Reduce the number of Connection's created in classes of hbase-spark module |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-16823](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16823) | Add examples in HBase Spark module |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17549](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17549) | HBase-Spark Module : Incorrect log at println and unwanted comment code |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-18176](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18176) | add enforcer rule to make sure hbase-spark / scala aren't dependencies of unexpected modules |  Major | build, hbase-connectors, spark |
 | [HBASE-21491](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21491) | [hbase-connectors] Edit on spark connector README |  Trivial | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21841](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21841) | Allow inserting null values throw DataSource API |  Major | spark |
 | [HBASE-21880](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21880) | [hbase-connectors] clean up site target |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21842](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21842) | Properly use flatten-maven-plugin in hbase-connectors |  Major | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21931](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21931) | [hbase-connectors] Bump surefire version |  Major | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-14789](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14789) | Enhance the current spark-hbase connector |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
 
 
 ### BUG FIXES:
 
 | JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
 |:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-14377](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14377) | JavaHBaseContextSuite not being run |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-14406](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14406) | The dataframe datasource filter is wrong, and will result in data loss or unexpected behavior |  Blocker | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15184](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15184) | SparkSQL Scan operation doesn't work on kerberos cluster |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-16804](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16804) | JavaHBaseContext.streamBulkGet is void but should be JavaDStream |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17547](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17547) | HBase-Spark Module : TableCatelog doesn't support multiple columns from Single Column family |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17574](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17574) | Clean up how to run tests under hbase-spark module |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15597](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15597) | Clean up configuration keys used in hbase-spark module |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17909](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17909) | Redundant exclusion of jruby-complete in pom of hbase-spark |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-17546](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17546) | Incorrect syntax at HBase-Spark Module Examples |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-19387](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19387) | HBase-spark snappy.SnappyError on Arm64 |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark, test |
+| [HBASE-16179](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16179) | Fix compilation errors when building hbase-spark against Spark 2.0 |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-20124](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20124) | Make hbase-spark module work with hadoop3 |  Major | dependencies, hadoop3, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-20177](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20177) | Fix warning: Class org.apache.hadoop.minikdc.MiniKdc not found in hbase-spark |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-20375](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20375) | Remove use of getCurrentUserCredentials in hbase-spark module |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-20880](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20880) | Fix for warning It would fail on the following input in hbase-spark |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-21038](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21038) | SAXParseException when hbase.spark.use.hbasecontext=false |  Major | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-20175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20175) | hbase-spark needs scala dependency convergance |  Major | dependencies, hbase-connectors, spark |
 | [HBASE-21429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21429) | [hbase-connectors] pom refactoring adding kafka dir intermediary |  Minor | hbase-connectors, kafka |
 | [HBASE-21431](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21431) | [hbase-connectors] Fix build and test issues |  Blocker | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21434](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21434) | [hbase-connectors] Cleanup of kafka dependencies; clarify hadoop version |  Major | hbase-connectors, kafka |
@@ -53,12 +84,26 @@
 | [HBASE-21448](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21448) | [hbase-connectors] Make compile/tests pass on scala 2.10 AND 2.11 |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
 | [HBASE-21878](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21878) | [hbase-connectors] Fix hbase-checkstyle version reference |  Critical | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21923](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21923) | [hbase-connectors] Make apache-rat pass |  Critical | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-21450](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21450) | [documentation] Point spark doc at hbase-connectors spark |  Major | documentation, hbase-connectors, spark |
+
+
+### TESTS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-18175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18175) | Add hbase-spark integration test into hbase-spark-it |  Critical | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-20176](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20176) | Fix warnings about Logging import in hbase-spark test code |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
 
 
 ### SUB-TASKS:
 
 | JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
 |:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-15336](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15336) | Support Dataframe writer to the spark connector |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15333](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15333) | [hbase-spark] Enhance dataframe filters to handle naively encoded short, integer, long, float and double |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-15473](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15473) | Documentation for the usage of hbase dataframe user api (JSON, Avro, etc) |  Blocker | documentation, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-19482](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19482) | Fix Checkstyle errors in hbase-spark-it |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
+| [HBASE-19597](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19597) | Fix Checkstyle errors in hbase-spark |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
 | [HBASE-21002](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21002) | Create assembly and scripts to start Kafka Proxy |  Minor | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-21435](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21435) | [hbase-connectors] Cleanup of kafka dependencies; clarify hadoop version; addendum |  Minor | hbase-connectors, kafka |
 
@@ -67,6 +112,10 @@
 
 | JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
 |:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-14184](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14184) | Fix indention and typo in JavaHBaseContext |  Minor | hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-21022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21022) | Review kafka-connection repo's POMs |  Major | hbase-connectors, kafka |
+| [HBASE-20257](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20257) | hbase-spark should not depend on com.google.code.findbugs.jsr305 |  Minor | build, hbase-connectors, spark |
+| [HBASE-21273](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21273) | Move classes out of org.apache.spark namespace |  Major | hbase-connectors, spark |
 | [HBASE-21432](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21432) | [hbase-connectors] Add Apache Yetus integration for hbase-connectors repository |  Major | build, hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-22221](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22221) | Extend kafka-proxy documentation with required hbase settings |  Major | hbase-connectors |
 | [HBASE-22210](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22210) | Fix hbase-connectors-assembly to include every jar |  Major | hbase-connectors |
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 1db8e3c..8467187
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
       same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
       identification within third-party archives.
 
-   Copyright 2018 Apache HBase
+   Copyright 2019 Apache HBase
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1927c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Apache HBase - Connectors
+Copyright 2019 The Apache Software Foundation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0159f9..3534f51 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+<!---
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
 # hbase-connectors
 
 Connectors for [Apache HBase&trade;](https://hbase.apache.org) 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index 86b0a45..b3bbacf 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -1,25 +1,21 @@
-# RELEASENOTES
-
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-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
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-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
-# Be careful doing manual edits in this file. Do not change format
-# of release header or remove the below marker. This file is generated.
-# DO NOT REMOVE THIS MARKER; FOR INTERPOLATING CHANGES!-->
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
 # HBase  connector-1.0.0 Release Notes
 
 These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
@@ -27,6 +23,96 @@
 
 ---
 
+* [HBASE-13992](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13992) | *Major* | **Integrate SparkOnHBase into HBase**
+
+This release includes initial support for running Spark against HBase with a richer feature set than was previously possible with MapReduce bindings:
+
+\* Support for Spark and Spark Streaming against Spark 2.1.1
+\* RDD/DStream formation from scan operations
+\* convenience methods for interacting with HBase from an HBase backed RDD / DStream instance
+\* examples in both the Spark Java API and Spark Scala API
+\* support for running against a secure HBase cluster
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-14849](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14849) | *Major* | **Add option to set block cache to false on SparkSQL executions**
+
+For user configurable parameters for HBase datasources. Please refer to org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.datasources.HBaseSparkConf for details.
+
+User can either set them in SparkConf, which will take effect globally, or configure it per table, which will overwrite the value set in SparkConf. If not set, the default value will take effect.
+
+Currently three parameters are supported.
+1. spark.hbase.blockcache.enable for blockcache enable/disable. Default is enable,  but note that this potentially may slow down the system.
+2. spark.hbase.cacheSize for cache size when performing HBase table scan. Default value is 1000
+3. spark.hbase.batchNum for the batch number when performing HBase table scan. Default value is 1000.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-15184](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15184) | *Critical* | **SparkSQL Scan operation doesn't work on kerberos cluster**
+
+Before this patch, users of the spark HBaseContext would fail due to lack of  privilege exceptions.
+
+Note:
+\* It is preferred to have spark in spark-on-yarn mode if Kerberos is used.
+\* This is orthogonal to issues with a kerberized spark cluster via InputFormats.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-15572](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15572) | *Major* | **Adding optional timestamp semantics to HBase-Spark**
+
+Right now the timestamp is always latest. With this patch, users can select timestamps they want.
+In this patch, 4 parameters, "timestamp", "minTimestamp", "maxiTimestamp" and "maxVersions" are added to HBaseSparkConf. Users can select a timestamp, they can also select a time range with minimum timestamp and maximum timestamp.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-17574](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17574) | *Major* | **Clean up how to run tests under hbase-spark module**
+
+Run test under root dir or hbase-spark dir
+1. mvn test //run all small and medium java tests, and all scala tests
+2. mvn test -P skipSparkTests //skip all scala and java tests in hbase-spark
+3. mvn test -P runAllTests //run all tests, including scala and all java test even the large test
+
+Run specified test case, since we have two plugins, we need specify both java and scala.
+When only test scala or jave test case, disable the other one use -Dxx=None as follow:
+1. mvn test -Dtest=TestJavaHBaseContext -DwildcardSuites=None // java unit test
+2. mvn test -Dtest=None -DwildcardSuites=org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.BulkLoadSuite //scala unit test, only support full name in scalatest plugin
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-17933](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17933) | *Major* | **[hbase-spark]  Support Java api for bulkload**
+
+<!-- markdown -->
+The integration module for Apache Spark now includes Java-friendly equivalents for the `bulkLoad` and `bulkLoadThinRows` methods in `JavaHBaseContext`.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-18175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18175) | *Critical* | **Add hbase-spark integration test into hbase-spark-it**
+
+<!-- markdown -->
+HBase now ships with an integration test for our integration with Apache Spark.
+
+You can run this test on a cluster by using an equivalent to the below, e.g. if the version of HBase is 2.0.0-alpha-2
+
+```
+spark-submit --class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.IntegrationTestSparkBulkLoad HBASE_HOME/lib/hbase-spark-it-2.0.0-alpha-2-tests.jar -Dhbase.spark.bulkload.chainlength=500000 -m slowDeterministic
+```
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-16179](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16179) | *Critical* | **Fix compilation errors when building hbase-spark against Spark 2.0**
+
+As of this JIRA, Spark version is upgraded from 1.6 to 2.1.1
+
+
+---
+
 * [HBASE-21002](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21002) | *Minor* | **Create assembly and scripts to start Kafka Proxy**
 
 Adds a kafka proxy that appears to hbase as a replication peer. Use to tee table edits to kafka. Has mechanism for dropping/routing updates. See https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors/tree/master/kafka for documentation.
@@ -46,4 +132,22 @@
 Updates our hbase-spark integration so defaults spark 2.4.0 (October 2018) from 2.1.1 and Scala 2.11.12 (from 2.11.8).
 
 
+---
+
+* [HBASE-15320](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15320) | *Major* | **HBase connector for Kafka Connect**
+
+This commit adds a kafka connector. The connectors acts as a replication peer and sends modifications in HBase to kafka.
+
+For further information, please refer to kafka/README.md.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-14789](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14789) | *Major* | **Enhance the current spark-hbase connector**
+
+New features in hbase-spark:
+\* native type support (short, int, long, float, double),
+\* support for Dataframe writes,
+\* avro support,
+\* catalog can be defined in json.
 
diff --git a/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml b/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
index 080608c..284939d 100755
--- a/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
+++ b/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
@@ -49,5 +49,15 @@
         </dependencySets>
       </binaries>
     </moduleSet>
- </moduleSets>
+  </moduleSets>
+  <files>
+    <file>
+      <source>../LICENSE.txt</source>
+      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+    </file>
+    <file>
+      <source>../NOTICE.txt</source>
+      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+    </file>
+  </files>
 </assembly>
diff --git a/kafka/README.md b/kafka/README.md
index 827e86f..0277052 100755
--- a/kafka/README.md
+++ b/kafka/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+<!---
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
 # Apache HBase&trade; Kafka Proxy
 
 Welcome to the HBase kafka proxy. The purpose of this proxy is to act as a _fake peer_.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5393b52..7ee9a61 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -348,7 +348,6 @@
               <exclude>.git/**</exclude>
               <exclude>**/.settings/**</exclude>
               <exclude>**/patchprocess/**</exclude>
-              <exclude>README.md</exclude>
               <exclude>**/.flattened-pom.xml</exclude>
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 # Apache HBase&trade; Spark Connector
 
 ## Scala and Spark Versions