diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 165e1d4db4dd7e59bc844569243e385c56d29ae3..ecba33bd303a3cef6de8cdabd18cd0e010285f87 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/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 56df3f5ac6a0e65413f4704b0e0b151b2ee9298b..e908b9017736257a7c9194142a318eb6e15b31cd 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.4.0"
+__version__ = "1.4.1rc1"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when