diff --git a/coremain/version.go b/coremain/version.go
index c61fd0216..5b6ae99d2 100644
--- a/coremain/version.go
+++ b/coremain/version.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package coremain
 
 // Various CoreDNS constants.
 const (
-	CoreVersion = "1.13.2"
+	CoreVersion = "1.14.0"
 	CoreName    = "CoreDNS"
 	serverType  = "dns"
 )
diff --git a/notes/coredns-1.14.0.md b/notes/coredns-1.14.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c5731741
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notes/coredns-1.14.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
++++
+title = "CoreDNS-1.14.0 Release"
+description = "CoreDNS-1.1.4.0 Release Notes."
+tags = ["Release", "1.14.0", "Notes"]
+release = "1.14.0"
+date = "2026-01-10T00:00:00+00:00"
+author = "coredns"
++++
+
+This release focuses on security hardening and operational reliability. Core updates
+introduce a regex length limit to reduce resource-exhaustion risk. Plugin updates
+improve error consolidation (`show_first`), reduce misleading SOA warnings, add
+Kubernetes API rate limiting, enhance metrics with plugin chain tracking, and fix
+issues in azure and sign. This release also includes additional security fixes;
+see the security advisory for details.
+
+## Brought to You By
+
+cangming
+pasteley
+Raisa Kabir
+Ross Golder
+rusttech
+Syed Azeez
+Ville Vesilehto
+Yong Tang
+
+## Noteworthy Changes
+
+* core: Fix gosec G115 integer overflow warnings (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7799)
+* core: Add regex length limit (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7802)
+* plugin/azure: Fix slice init length (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6901)
+* plugin/errors: Add optional `show_first` flag to consolidate directive (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7703)
+* plugin/file: Fix for misleading SOA parser warnings (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7774)
+* plugin/kubernetes: Rate limits to api server (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7771)
+* plugin/metrics: Implement plugin chain tracking (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7791)
+* plugin/sign: Report parser err before missing SOA (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7775)