diff --git a/coremain/version.go b/coremain/version.go
index 553f360ed..7afa4105b 100644
--- a/coremain/version.go
+++ b/coremain/version.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package coremain
 
 // Various CoreDNS constants.
 const (
-	CoreVersion = "1.11.3"
+	CoreVersion = "1.11.4"
 	CoreName    = "CoreDNS"
 	serverType  = "dns"
 )
diff --git a/notes/coredns-1.11.4.md b/notes/coredns-1.11.4.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c57038081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notes/coredns-1.11.4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+
+
+This release adds some new features and fixes some bugs.  New features of note:
+  * forward plugin: new option `next`, to try alternate upstreams when receiving specified response codes upstreams on (functions like the external plugin _alternate_) 
+  * dnssec plugin: new option to load keys from AWS Secrets Manager
+  * rewrite plugin: new option to revert EDNS0 option rewrites in responses
+
+## Brought to You By
+
+AdamKorcz,
+Anifalak,
+Ben Kochie,
+Chris O'Haver,
+Frederic Hemery,
+Grant Spence,
+Harshita Sao,
+Jason Joo,
+Jasper Bernhardt,
+Johnny Bergström,
+Keith Coleman,
+Kevin Lyda,
+Lan,
+Lin-1997,
+Manuel Rüger,
+Nathan Currier,
+Nicolai Søborg,
+Nikita Usatov,
+Paco Xu,
+Reinhard Nägele,
+Robbie Ostrow,
+TAKAHASHI Shuuji,
+Till Riedel,
+Tobias Klauser,
+YASH JAIN,
+cedar-gao,
+chenylh,
+wmkuipers,
+xinbenlv,
+zhangguanzhang
+
+## Noteworthy Changes
+
+* core: set cache-control max-age as integer, not float (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6764)
+* plugin/metadata: evaluate metadata in plugin order (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6729)
+* plugin/dnssec: dnssec load keys from AWS Secrets Manager (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6618)
+* plugin/rewrite: Add "revert" parameter for EDNS0 options (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6893)
+* container: Restored backwards compatibility of Current Workdir (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6731)
+* plugin/auto: call OnShutdown() for each zone at its own OnShutdown() (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6705)
+* plugin/dnstap: log queue and buffer memory size configuration (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6591)
+* plugin/bind: add zone for link-local IPv6 instead of skipping (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6547)
+* plugin/kubernetes: only create PTR records for endpoints with hostname defined (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6898)
+* plugin/rewrite: execute the reversion in reversed order (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6872)
+* plugin/etcd: fix etcd connection leakage during reload (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6646)
+* plugi/kubernetes: Add useragent (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6484)
+* plugin/hosts: add hostsfile as label for coredns_hosts_entries (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6801)
+* plugin/file: Fix zone parser error handling (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6680)
+* plugin/forward: Add alternate option to forward plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6681)
+* plugin/file: return error when parsing the file fails (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6699)
+* build: Generate zplugin.go correctly with third-party plugins (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6692)