diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 0f48321d49..eb2ed49fbd 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -30,3 +30,14 @@ Helen Xie <xieyulin821@harmonycloud.cn> Helen-xie <xieyulin821@harmonycloud.cn>
 Mike Brown <brownwm@us.ibm.com> Mike Brown <mikebrow@users.noreply.github.com>
 Manish Tomar <manish.tomar@docker.com> Manish Tomar <manishtomar@users.noreply.github.com>
 Sakeven Jiang <jc5930@sina.cn> sakeven <jc5930@sina.cn>
+Milos Gajdos <milosgajdos83@gmail.com> Milos Gajdos <milosgajdos@users.noreply.github.com>
+Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> Derek McGowa <dmcgowan@users.noreply.github.com>
+Adrian Plata <adrian.plata@docker.com> Adrian Plata <@users.noreply.github.com>
+Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl> Sebastiaan van Stijn <thaJeztah@users.noreply.github.com>
+Vishesh Jindal <vishesh92@gmail.com> Vishesh Jindal <vishesh92@users.noreply.github.com>
+Wang Yan <wangyan@vmware.com> Wang Yan <wy65701436@users.noreply.github.com>
+Chris Patterson <chrispat@github.com> Chris Patterson <chrispat@users.noreply.github.com>
+Eohyung Lee <liquidnuker@gmail.com> Eohyung Lee <leoh0@users.noreply.github.com>
+João Pereira <484633+joaodrp@users.noreply.github.com>
+Smasherr <soundcracker@gmail.com> Smasherr <Smasherr@users.noreply.github.com>
+Thomas Berger <loki@lokis-chaos.de> Thomas Berger <tbe@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/releases/v2.7.2.toml b/releases/v2.7.2.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3d4897571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/v2.7.2.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+project_name = "registry"
+github_repo = "distribution/distribution"
+
+# previous release
+previous = "v2.7.1"
+
+pre_release = false
+
+preface = """\
+The 2.7.2 registry release has been a long time overdue.
+This is a patch release that improves docs, CI builds
+and adds a few bug fixes.
+
+See changelog below for full list of changes
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Close the io.ReadCloser from storage driver [#3370](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3370)
+* Remove empty Content-Type header [#3297](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3297)
+* Make ipfilteredby not required [#3088](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3088)
+
+### Features
+* Add reference.ParseDockerRef utility function [#3002](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3002)
+
+### CI build
+
+* First draft of actions based ci [#3347](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3347)
+* Fix vndr and check [#3001](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3001)
+* Improve code quality by adding linter checks [#3385](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3385)
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Add redirect for old URL [#3197](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3197)
+* Fix broken table [#3073](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3073)
+* Adding deprecated schema v1 instructions [#2987](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/2987)
+
+### Storage drivers
+
+* S3 Driver: add support for ceph radosgw [#3119](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3119)
+
+### Security
+
+* Added flag for user configurable cipher suites [#3384](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/3384)
+
+### Dependency Changes
+
+This release has no dependency changes
+"""
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 2519fd6dec..80e6ac6561 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ var Package = "github.com/docker/distribution"
 // the latest release tag by hand, always suffixed by "+unknown". During
 // build, it will be replaced by the actual version. The value here will be
 // used if the registry is run after a go get based install.
-var Version = "v2.7.1+unknown"
+var Version = "v2.7.2+unknown"
 
 // Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 // the program at linking time.