diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9e90ae5..8a9ce35 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 Apache Tez Change Log
 =====================
 
-Release 0.8.4: Unreleased
-
-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
-
-ALL CHANGES:
-
 Release 0.8.3: 2016-04-14 
 
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
index d2c82ea..7611ab8 100644
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ b/docs/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
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diff --git a/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.4/pom.xml b/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.4/pom.xml
index 904683b..7e4a050 100644
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diff --git a/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.6/pom.xml b/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.6/pom.xml
index a7d147b..1c7f9e4 100644
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diff --git a/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.8/pom.xml b/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.8/pom.xml
index 4aca03c..58694fc 100644
--- a/hadoop-shim-impls/hadoop-shim-2.8/pom.xml
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diff --git a/hadoop-shim-impls/pom.xml b/hadoop-shim-impls/pom.xml
index 425155d..7fb42e8 100644
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diff --git a/hadoop-shim/pom.xml b/hadoop-shim/pom.xml
index c2a36fc..7678b2d 100644
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e18cef6..977e1eb 100644
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
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diff --git a/tez-api/pom.xml b/tez-api/pom.xml
index 455947c..0e84daf 100644
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diff --git a/tez-common/pom.xml b/tez-common/pom.xml
index 85267ab..d27ff4d 100644
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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diff --git a/tez-dag/pom.xml b/tez-dag/pom.xml
index 59a28b4..549d7bd 100644
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diff --git a/tez-dist/pom.xml b/tez-dist/pom.xml
index 8400318..011962a 100644
--- a/tez-dist/pom.xml
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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   <artifactId>tez-dist</artifactId>
 
diff --git a/tez-examples/pom.xml b/tez-examples/pom.xml
index b9b1b0b..750042e 100644
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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   <artifactId>tez-examples</artifactId>
diff --git a/tez-ext-service-tests/pom.xml b/tez-ext-service-tests/pom.xml
index 0740fc6..f77ab75 100644
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   <artifactId>tez-ext-service-tests</artifactId>
diff --git a/tez-mapreduce/pom.xml b/tez-mapreduce/pom.xml
index a56c2d5..52cbab3 100644
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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   <artifactId>tez-mapreduce</artifactId>
 
diff --git a/tez-plugins/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/pom.xml
index 902354a..027448a 100644
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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   <artifactId>tez-plugins</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-history-parser/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/tez-history-parser/pom.xml
index 389ae1b..48c3aa1 100644
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-cache-plugin/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-cache-plugin/pom.xml
index 4314bb9..8a2122d 100644
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diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-acls/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-acls/pom.xml
index 0f9987d..960c584 100644
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diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-fs/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-fs/pom.xml
index d41f054..179006f 100644
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diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/pom.xml b/tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/pom.xml
index 4240465..baa0d80 100644
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diff --git a/tez-runtime-internals/pom.xml b/tez-runtime-internals/pom.xml
index b879aab..d45668b 100644
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diff --git a/tez-runtime-library/pom.xml b/tez-runtime-library/pom.xml
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diff --git a/tez-tests/pom.xml b/tez-tests/pom.xml
index 24cdd30..d388039 100644
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diff --git a/tez-tools/analyzers/job-analyzer/pom.xml b/tez-tools/analyzers/job-analyzer/pom.xml
index 0c33ddd..738a81f 100644
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diff --git a/tez-tools/tez-javadoc-tools/pom.xml b/tez-tools/tez-javadoc-tools/pom.xml
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diff --git a/tez-tools/tez-tfile-parser/pom.xml b/tez-tools/tez-tfile-parser/pom.xml
index 5602b03..62d331a 100644
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diff --git a/tez-ui/pom.xml b/tez-ui/pom.xml
index 6ad508c..f2e0124 100644
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diff --git a/tez-ui2/pom.xml b/tez-ui2/pom.xml
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