CHANGES.txt, pom.xml for 0.94.24RC0
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cd1485b..ab23bc2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,30 @@
 HBase Change Log
+Release 0.94.24 - 09/28/2014
+Sub-task
+
+    [HBASE-11923] - Potential race condition in RecoverableZookeeper.checkZk()
+    [HBASE-11963] - Synchronize peer cluster replication connection attempts
+    [HBASE-12023] - HRegion.applyFamilyMapToMemstore creates too many iterator objects.
+    [HBASE-12077] - FilterLists create many ArrayList$Itr objects per row.
+
+Bug
+
+    [HBASE-11405] - Multiple invocations of hbck in parallel disables balancer permanently
+    [HBASE-11957] - Backport to 0.94 HBASE-5974 Scanner retry behavior with RPC timeout on next() seems incorrect
+    [HBASE-12019] - hbase-daemon.sh overwrite HBASE_ROOT_LOGGER and HBASE_SECURITY_LOGGER variables
+    [HBASE-12020] - String formatting on each RPC Invoke
+    [HBASE-12022] - Payloads on Failure attempt to serialize the byte[] into strings.
+
+Improvement
+
+    [HBASE-12090] - Bytes: more Unsafe, more Faster
+
+Task
+
+    [HBASE-12103] - Backport HFileV1Detector to 0.94
+    [HBASE-12113] - Backport to 0.94: HBASE-5525 Truncate and preserve region boundaries option
+
+
 Release 0.94.23 - 08/26/2014
 Bug
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
   <artifactId>hbase</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>0.94.24-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.94.24</version>
   <name>HBase</name>
   <description>
     HBase is the &amp;lt;a href="http://hadoop.apache.org"&amp;rt;Hadoop&lt;/a&amp;rt; database. Use it when you need