diff --git a/releases/v1.6.14.toml b/releases/v1.6.14.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8afb02e6a8ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/v1.6.14.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# 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 = "v1.6.13"
+
+pre_release = false
+
+preface = """\
+The fourteenth patch release for containerd 1.6 fixes a regression in the CRI plugin related to swap
+
+### Notable Updates
+
+* **Fix `memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes: no such file or directory` error in CRI plugin** ([#7838](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7838))
+
+See the changelog for complete list of changes"""
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 6938279ee6db..531af7953673 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 = "1.6.13+unknown"
+	Version = "1.6.14+unknown"
 
 	// Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 	// the program at linking time.