diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 165e1d4db4..ecba33bd30 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Synapse 1.4.1rc1 (2019-10-17)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug where redacted events were sometimes incorrectly censored in the database, breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6185), [5b0e9948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/5b0e9948eaae801643e594b5abc8ee4b10bd194e))
+
 Synapse 1.4.0 (2019-10-03)
 ==========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/6185.bugfix b/changelog.d/6185.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d1c669b88..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/6185.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug where redacted events were sometimes incorrectly censored in the database, breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 2d52d26af5..2fc0c3cf85 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.4.0"
+__version__ = "1.4.1rc1"