Preparing hbase-thirdparty release 3.1.0RC0; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index cb5c668..673abd8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@
 last argument is the version to search JIRA with.
 
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+## Release hbase-thirdparty-3.1.0 - Unreleased (as of 2019-09-28)
+
+
+
+### SUB-TASKS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-23088](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-23088) | [hbase-thirdparty] Upgrade the dependencies for hbase-thirdparty |  Major | hbase-thirdparty |
+
+
 
 ## Release thirdparty-3.0.0 - Unreleased (as of 2019-09-22)
 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index 54cfa78..95e70c1 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -32,6 +32,22 @@
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+# HBASE  hbase-thirdparty-3.1.0 Release Notes
+
+These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-23088](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-23088) | *Major* | **[hbase-thirdparty] Upgrade the dependencies for hbase-thirdparty**
+
+    netty-all: 4.1.34.Final =\> 4.1.42.Final
+    guava: 27.1-jre =\> 28.1-jre
+    commons-collections4: 4.3 =\> 4.4
+    protobuf: 3.7.1 =\> 3.9.2
+
+
+
 # HBASE  thirdparty-3.0.0 Release Notes
 
 These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
diff --git a/hbase-shaded-gson/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded-gson/pom.xml
index d89bcc4..bb0bfd1 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded-gson/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded-gson/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
     <artifactId>hbase-thirdparty</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.1.0</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-shaded-gson</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-shaded-miscellaneous/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded-miscellaneous/pom.xml
index f475ed0..ad62196 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded-miscellaneous/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded-miscellaneous/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
     <artifactId>hbase-thirdparty</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.1.0</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-shaded-miscellaneous</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-shaded-netty/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded-netty/pom.xml
index 8ae7293..54355e8 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded-netty/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded-netty/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
     <artifactId>hbase-thirdparty</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.1.0</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-shaded-netty</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-shaded-protobuf/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded-protobuf/pom.xml
index 97a624b..519966a 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded-protobuf/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded-protobuf/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
     <artifactId>hbase-thirdparty</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.1.0</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-shaded-protobuf</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3170db9..6a7c2f5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
   <artifactId>hbase-thirdparty</artifactId>
-  <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.1.0</version>
   <name>Apache HBase Third-Party Libs</name>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <description>