diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index b6ce97230bfd..66a5a25e4020 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ Ross Boucher <rboucher@gmail.com>
 Ruediger Maass <ruediger.maass@de.ibm.com>
 Rui Cao <ruicao@alauda.io> <ruicao@alauda.io>
 Sakeven Jiang <jc5930@sina.cn>
+Samuel Karp <me@samuelkarp.com> <samuelkarp@google.com>
 Samuel Karp <me@samuelkarp.com> <skarp@amazon.com>
 Seth Pellegrino <spellegrino@newrelic.com> <30441101+sethp-nr@users.noreply.github.com>
 Shaobao Feng <shaobao.feng@huawei.com>
diff --git a/releases/v1.5.14.toml b/releases/v1.5.14.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..330034bf1a6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/v1.5.14.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+project_name = "containerd"
+github_repo = "containerd/containerd"
+match_deps = "^github.com/(containerd/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$"
+
+# previous release
+previous = "v1.5.13"
+
+pre_release = false
+
+preface = """\
+The fourteenth patch release for containerd 1.5 includes various fixes and updates
+along with an updated version of runc.
+
+### Notable Updates
+
+* **Fix WWW-Authenticate parsing to allow empty quoted string** ([#7132](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7132))
+* **Update oci.WithDefaultUnixDevices(): remove tun/tap from the default devices** ([#7267](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7267))
+* **Fix createTarFile: make xattr EPERM non-fatal** ([#7449](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7449))
+* **Fix dockerPusher to handle abort correctly** ([#7467](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7467))
+* **Migrate from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io** ([#7550](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7550))
+* **Fix CRI: PodSandboxStatus should tolerate missing task** ([#7552](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7552))
+* **Fix io.containerd.runc.v1: Stats() shouldn't assume s.container is non-nil** ([#7556](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7556))
+
+See the changelog for complete list of changes"""
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 80f9157801f2..b818cba6d0e7 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ var (
 	Package = "github.com/containerd/containerd"
 
 	// Version holds the complete version number. Filled in at linking time.
-	Version = "1.5.13+unknown"
+	Version = "1.5.14+unknown"
 
 	// Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 	// the program at linking time.