TEZ-3180. Update master docs to declare hadoop-2.6.x as a minimum
requirement. Contributed by Hitesh Shah.
diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 14fd9a5..ccf8d90 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 * Findbugs 2.0.2 or later (if running findbugs)
 * ProtocolBuffer 2.5.0
 * Internet connection for first build (to fetch all dependencies)
+* Hadoop version should be 2.6.0 or higher.
 
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 Maven main modules:
@@ -63,9 +64,9 @@
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 Building against a specific version of hadoop:
 
-Tez runs on top of Apache Hadoop YARN and requires hadoop version 2.2.0 or higher.
+Tez runs on top of Apache Hadoop YARN and requires hadoop version 2.6.0 or higher.
 
-By default, it can be compiled against hadoop versions 2.6.0 and higher by just
+By default, it can be compiled against other compatible hadoop versions by just
 specifying the hadoop.version. For example, to build tez against hadoop 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT 
 
  $ mvn package -Dhadoop.version=3.0.0-SNAPSHOT
@@ -81,38 +82,14 @@
 
  $ mvn package  -Dhadoop.version=${X} -Phadoop28 -P\!hadoop26
 
-For Hadoop version X where 2.4.0 <= X < 2.6.0
-
- $ mvn package  -Dhadoop.version=${X} -Phadoop24 -P\!hadoop26
-
-For Hadoop version X where X < 2.4.0
-
- $ mvn package  -Dhadoop.version=${X} -P\!hadoop24 -P\!hadoop26
-
-For recent versions of Hadoop, you can bundle AWS-S3 (2.6.0+) or Azure (2.7.0+) support 
+For recent versions of Hadoop (which do not bundle aws and azure by default),
+you can bundle AWS-S3 (2.6.0+) or Azure (2.7.0+) support:
 
  $ mvn package -Dhadoop.version=${X} -Paws -Pazure 
 
 Tez also has some shims to provide version-specific implementations for various APIs.
 For more details, please refer to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TEZ/HadoopShims
 
-For building on Windows with the hadoop24 profile enabled:
-
-Tez has a couple of symlinks in its codebase. Windows is a bit difficult with
-respect to handling symlinks hence a couple of steps may be needed to be
-able to compile the code. The symlink directories are:
-
-tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/ats
-tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/tests
-
-To handle these symlinks, wipe these files away and copy the destination dirs
-into the same location:
-
-  - Replace tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/ats
-with tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-acls/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/ats
-  - Replace tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/tests
-with tez-plugins/tez-yarn-timeline-history-with-acls/src/test/java/org/apache/tez/tests
-
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 UI build issues:
 
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d034c8c..4ae94fe 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 Release 0.8.3: Unreleased
 
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+  TEZ-3180. Update master docs to declare hadoop-2.6.x as a minimum requirement.
   TEZ-3029. Add an onError method to service plugin contexts.
   TEZ-3120. Remove TaskCommContext.getCurrentDagName, Identifier.
   TEZ-3183. Change the taskFailed method on plugin contexts to specify the type of failure.
diff --git a/docs/src/site/markdown/install.md b/docs/src/site/markdown/install.md
index 3854781..a09f4bd 100644
--- a/docs/src/site/markdown/install.md
+++ b/docs/src/site/markdown/install.md
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
 
 Install/Deploy Instructions for Tez
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-Replace x.y.z with the tez release number that you are using. E.g. 0.5.0
+Replace x.y.z with the tez release number that you are using. E.g. 0.5.0. For Tez 
+versions 0.8.3 and higher, Tez needs Hadoop to be of version 2.6.0 or higher.
 
-1.  Deploy Apache Hadoop using either the 2.2.0 release or a compatible 2.x version.
+1.  Deploy Apache Hadoop using version of 2.6.0 or higher.
     -   You need to change the value of the hadoop.version property in the
         top-level pom.xml to match the version of the hadoop branch being used.
         ```