HADOOP-10240. Merging change r1559280 from branch-2 to branch-2.3

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.3@1559282 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

BUILDING.txt

@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ Building on Windows
 Requirements:
 
 * Windows System
-* JDK 1.6
-* Maven 3.0
-* Windows SDK or Visual Studio 2010 Professional
-* ProtocolBuffer 2.4.1+ (for MapReduce and HDFS)
+* JDK 1.6+
+* Maven 3.0 or later
 * Findbugs 1.3.9 (if running findbugs)
+* ProtocolBuffer 2.5.0
+* Windows SDK or Visual Studio 2010 Professional
 * Unix command-line tools from GnuWin32 or Cygwin: sh, mkdir, rm, cp, tar, gzip
 * Internet connection for first build (to fetch all Maven and Hadoop dependencies)
 

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt

@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10234. "hadoop.cmd jar" does not propagate exit code. (cnauroth)
 
+    HADOOP-10240. Windows build instructions incorrectly state requirement of
+    protoc 2.4.1 instead of 2.5.0. (cnauroth)
+
     HADOOP-10112. har file listing doesn't work with wild card. (brandonli)
 
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13