apache · Amar3tto · Mar 16, 2026
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 [comment]: # ( When updating known issues after release, make sure also update website blog in website/www/site/content/blog.)
 * ([#X](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/X)).
 
-# [2.72.0] - 2026-02-??
+# [2.72.0] - 2026-03-??
 
 ## Highlights
 

diff --git a/website/www/site/config.toml b/website/www/site/config.toml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ github_project_repo = "https://github.com/apache/beam"
 
 [params]
 description = "Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of language-specific SDKs for defining and executing data processing workflows, and also data ingestion and integration flows, supporting Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Dataflow pipelines simplify the mechanics of large-scale batch and streaming data processing and can run on a number of runtimes like Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow (a cloud service). Beam also brings DSL in different languages, allowing users to easily implement their data integration processes."
-release_latest = "2.71.0"
+release_latest = "2.72.0"
 # The repository and branch where the files live in Github or Colab. This is used
 # to serve and stage from your local branch, but publish to the master branch.
 #   e.g. https://github.com/{{< param branch_repo >}}/path/to/notebook.ipynb

diff --git a/website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.71.0.md b/website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.71.0.md
@@ -32,22 +32,22 @@ For more information on changes in 2.71.0, check out the [detailed release notes
 * (Java) Elasticsearch 9 Support ([#36491](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/36491)).
 * (Java) Upgraded HCatalogIO to Hive 4.0.1 ([#32189](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/32189)).
 
-## New Features / Improvements
+### New Features / Improvements
 
 * Support configuring Firestore database on ReadFn transforms (Java) ([#36904](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/36904)).
 * (Python) Inference args are now allowed in most model handlers, except where they are explicitly/intentionally disallowed ([#37093](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37093)).
 
-## Bugfixes
+### Bugfixes
 
 * Fixed FirestoreV1 Beam connectors allow configuring inconsistent project/database IDs between RPC requests and routing headers #36895 (Java) ([#36895](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/36895)).
 * Logical type and coder registry are saved for pipelines in the case of default pickler ([#36271](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/36271)). This fixes a side effect of switching to cloudpickle as default pickler in Beam 2.65.0 (Python) ([#35738](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/35738)).
 
-## Known Issues
+### Known Issues
 
 For the most up to date list of known issues, see https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/CHANGES.md
 
 ## List of Contributors
 
 According to git shortlog, the following people contributed to the 2.71.0 release. Thank you to all contributors!
 
-Abacn, Ahmed Abualsaud, Amar3tto, Andrew Crites, apanich, Arun, Arun Pandian, assaf127, Chamikara Jayalath, CherisPatelInfocusp, Cheskel Twersky, Claire McGinty, Claude, Danny Mccormick, dependabot[bot], Derrick Williams, Egbert van der Wal, Evan Galpin, Ganesh, github-actions[bot], hekk-kaori-maeda, Jack Dingilian, Jack McCluskey, JayajP, Jiang Zhu, Kenneth Knowles, liferoad, M Junaid Shaukat, Nayan Mathur, Noah Stapp, Paco Avila, Radek Stankiewicz, Radosław Stankiewicz, Robert Stupp, Sam Whittle, Shunping Huang, Steven van Rossum, Suvrat Acharya, Tarun Annapareddy, tvalentyn, Utkarsh Parekh, Vitaly Terentyev, Xiaochu Liu, Yala Huang Feng, Yi Hu, Yu Watanabe, zhan7236
+Ahmed Abualsaud, Andrew Crites, apanich, Arun, Arun Pandian, assaf127, Chamikara Jayalath, CherisPatelInfocusp, Cheskel Twersky, Claire McGinty, Claude, Danny Mccormick, Derrick Williams, Egbert van der Wal, Evan Galpin, Ganesh, hekk-kaori-maeda, Jack Dingilian, Jack McCluskey, JayajP, Jiang Zhu, Kenneth Knowles, liferoad, M Junaid Shaukat, Nayan Mathur, Noah Stapp, Paco Avila, Radek Stankiewicz, Radosław Stankiewicz, Robert Stupp, Sam Whittle, Shunping Huang, Steven van Rossum, Suvrat Acharya, Tarun Annapareddy, tvalentyn, Utkarsh Parekh, Vitaly Terentyev, Xiaochu Liu, Yala Huang Feng, Yi Hu, Yu Watanabe, zhan7236
diff --git a/website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.72.0.md b/website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.72.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+---
+title:  "Apache Beam 2.72.0"
+date:   2026-03-?? 9:00:00 -0700
+categories:
+  - blog
+  - release
+authors:
+  - vterentev
+---
+<!--
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+We are happy to present the new 2.72.0 release of Beam.
+This release includes both improvements and new functionality.
+See the [download page](/get-started/downloads/#2720-2026-03-??) for this release.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+For more information on changes in 2.72.0, check out the [detailed release notes](https://github.com/apache/beam/milestone/39).
+
+## Highlights
+
+* Flink 2.0 support ([#36947](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/36947)).
+
+### I/Os
+
+* Add Datadog IO support (Java) ([#37318](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37318)).
+* Remove Pubsublite IO support, since service will be deprecated in March 2026. ([#37375](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37375)).
+* (Java) ClickHouse - migrating from the legacy JDBC driver (v0.6.3) to ClickHouse Java Client v2 (v0.9.6). See the [class documentation](https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/current/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/clickhouse/ClickHouseIO.html) for migration guide   ([#37610](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37610)).
+* (Java) Upgraded GoogleAdsIO to use GoogleAdsIO API v23 ([#37620](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37620)).
+
+### New Features / Improvements
+
+* (Python) Added exception chaining to preserve error context in CloudSQLEnrichmentHandler, processes utilities, and core transforms ([#37422](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37422)).
+* (Python) Added a pipeline option `--experiments=pip_no_build_isolation` to disable build isolation when installing dependencies in the runtime environment ([#37331](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37331)).
+
+### Deprecations
+
+* (Python) Removed previously deprecated list_prefix method for filesystem interfaces ([#37587](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37587)).
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Fixed (Yaml) issue with validate compatible method ([#37588](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37588)).
+* Fixed (Yaml) issue with Create transform dealing with different type elements ([#37585](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37585)).
+
+### Security Fixes
+
+* Fixed [CVE-2024-28397](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28397) by switching from js2py to pythonmonkey (Yaml) ([#37560](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37560)).
+
+## List of Contributors
+
+According to git shortlog, the following people contributed to the 2.72.0 release. Thank you to all contributors!
+
+Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Ahmed Abualsaud, Andrew Crites, Arun Pandian, Ben Feinstein, Bentsi Leviav, Celeste Zeng, Danny McCormick, Danny Mccormick, Derrick Williams, Elia LIU, Ganesh, Jack McCluskey, Kenneth Knowles, Labesse Kévin, M Junaid Shaukat, Mansi Singh, Mattie Fu, Nayan Mathur, Pablo Estrada, Pirzada Ahmad Faraz, Radek Stankiewicz, Radosław Stankiewicz, Robert Bradshaw, Rohan Sah, RuiLong J., Sakthivel Subramanian, Sam Whittle, Shaheer Amjad, Shunping Huang, Steven van Rossum, Tarun Annapareddy, Tobias Kaymak, Valentyn Tymofieiev, Vitaly Terentyev, Yi Hu, XQ Hu, ZIHAN DAI, apanich, chenxuesdu, claudevdm, franzonia137
diff --git a/website/www/site/content/en/get-started/downloads.md b/website/www/site/content/en/get-started/downloads.md
@@ -95,16 +95,24 @@ versions denoted `0.x.y`.
 
 ### Current release
 
-#### 2.71.0 (2026-01-22)
+#### 2.72.0 (2026-03-??)
 
-Official [source code download](https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip).
-[SHA-512](https://downloads.apache.org/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip.sha512).
-[signature](https://downloads.apache.org/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip.asc).
+Official [source code download](https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/beam/2.72.0/apache-beam-2.72.0-source-release.zip).
+[SHA-512](https://downloads.apache.org/beam/2.72.0/apache-beam-2.72.0-source-release.zip.sha512).
+[signature](https://downloads.apache.org/beam/2.72.0/apache-beam-2.72.0-source-release.zip.asc).
 
 [Release notes](https://github.com/apache/beam/releases/tag/v2.71.0)
 
 ### Archived releases
 
+#### 2.71.0 (2026-01-22)
+
+Official [source code download](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip).
+[SHA-512](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip.sha512).
+[signature](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.71.0/apache-beam-2.71.0-source-release.zip.asc).
+
+[Release notes](https://github.com/apache/beam/releases/tag/v2.70.0)
+
 #### 2.70.0 (2025-12-16)
 
 Official [source code download](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.70.0/apache-beam-2.70.0-source-release.zip).