diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index addfa6cd6..c53527b48 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,53 @@
-This file is a placeholder on the primary development branch of the
-OFI NCCL Plugin so that "make dist" works properly.  Release branches
-will have an accurate release history in this location, and each
-release tarball will also have up to date release notes.
+# AWS OFI NCCL Release notes
+
+# Supported Distributions
+
+- Amazon Linux 2
+- Amazon Linux 2023
+- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS.
+
+For releases before v1.6.0, we generally created releases from two separate
+branches, an AWS-specific branch and a general release branch.  With v1.6.0, we
+have unified the code into a single branch, and made the AWS-specific parts a
+compile-time option.  When a feature (or entire release) only supports one of
+the two variants, we note that in the release notes.
+
+# v1.14.0-aws (2025-02-13)
+
+This release is a general release that supports all libfabric networks.
+
+With this release, building with platform-aws requires
+[1.22.0amzn4.0](https://github.com/aws/libfabric/commits/1.22.0amzn4.0/)
+or greater. AWS customers are generally recommended to track
+[the latest-available EFA Installer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/efa-verify.html)
+for performance improvements and bug fixes.
+
+The 1.14.x release series supports
+[NCCL 2.25.3-1](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/releases/tag/v2.25.3-1)
+while maintaining backward compatibility with older NCCL versions
+([NCCL v2.17.1](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/releases/tag/v2.17.1-1) and later).
+
+Bug Fixes and Improvements:
+
+- RDMA Transport Enhancements:
+  - Added support for both FI_CONTEXT and FI_CONTEXT2
+  - Fixed FI_MR_LOCAL support by properly handling registration descriptors for connection establishment messages
+  - Refactored process_completions() for improved reliability and analysis tool compatibility
+
+- SendRecv Transport Improvements:
+  - Fixed FI_MR_LOCAL support with proper MR descriptors for connection establishment messages
+  - Added free list support for connection establishment messages
+
+- Tuning Improvements:
+  - Modified tuner behavior to default to NCCL internal tuner on two-node configurations
+  - This change addresses outlier performance issues in two-node scenarios
+
+- Core Improvements:
+  - Enhanced logging to display fabric name alongside provider name
+  - Updated NCCL types.h and err.h to sync with latest ext-net example
+  - Fixed size mismatch error handling
+
+These changes improve compatibility with libfabric 2.0 and enhance the overall reliability
+of the plugin, particularly in scenarios involving memory registration and connection
+establishment.
 
-If you're looking for Plugin releases, please see the [Releases
-Page](https://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl/releases).
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c0617e521..9f15088ac 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 # Initialization
-AC_INIT([aws-ofi-nccl], [GitHub-dev], [al-ofi-nccl-team@amazon.com], , [http://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl])
+AC_INIT([aws-ofi-nccl], [1.14.0], [al-ofi-nccl-team@amazon.com], , [http://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl])
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/nccl_ofi_net.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])