diff --git a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst
index 63354963d5a..3472c84e76e 100644
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,31 @@ ansible-core 2.11 "Hey Hey, What Can I Do" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v2.11.4rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-08-10
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix ``when`` evaluation on Native Jinja and Python 3.10.
+- Jinja2 globals should be accessible even when importing a template without the context (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75371)
+- ansible-test - add packaging python module to ``ansible-doc`` sanity test requirements.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - correctly validate positional parameters to ``AnsibleModules`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75332).
+- cli defaults for ssh args set to None as '' was bypassing normal default.
+- dnf module - Use all components of a package name to determine if it's installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75311).
+- do not trigger interpreter discovery in the forced_local module path as they should use the ansible playbook python unless otherwise configured.
+- find action, correctly convert path to text when warning about skiping.
+- remote tmpdir permissions - fix type error in macOS chmod ACL fallback (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74613).
+- template - ensure Jinja2 overrides from template header are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75275)
+- unarchive - move failure for missing binary to ``can_handle_archive()`` rather than ``__init__()``
+
 v2.11.3
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 22894898fa9..86fe92a5965 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1885,3 +1885,43 @@ releases:
     - slurp-improve-error-handling-readability.yml
     - v2.11.3rc1_summary.yaml
     release_date: '2021-07-13'
+  2.11.4rc1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Fix ``when`` evaluation on Native Jinja and Python 3.10.
+      - Jinja2 globals should be accessible even when importing a template without
+        the context (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75371)
+      - ansible-test - add packaging python module to ``ansible-doc`` sanity test
+        requirements.
+      - ansible-test validate-modules - correctly validate positional parameters to
+        ``AnsibleModules`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75332).
+      - cli defaults for ssh args set to None as '' was bypassing normal default.
+      - dnf module - Use all components of a package name to determine if it's installed
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75311).
+      - do not trigger interpreter discovery in the forced_local module path as they
+        should use the ansible playbook python unless otherwise configured.
+      - find action, correctly convert path to text when warning about skiping.
+      - remote tmpdir permissions - fix type error in macOS chmod ACL fallback (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74613).
+      - template - ensure Jinja2 overrides from template header are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75275)
+      - unarchive - move failure for missing binary to ``can_handle_archive()`` rather
+        than ``__init__()``
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2021-08-10
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+        '
+    codename: Hey Hey, What Can I Do
+    fragments:
+    - 74613-actionfixup_perms2_macos_remote_paths_ensure_list.yml
+    - 75275-ensure-jinja2-header-overrides-used.yml
+    - 75332-ansible-test-validate-modules-AnsibleModule-args.yml
+    - 75356-add-requirement-to-ansible-test.yml
+    - 75371-import_template_globals.yml
+    - find_error_fix.yml
+    - fix-dnf-filtering-for-installed-package-name.yml
+    - fix_cli_ssh_defaults.yml
+    - skip_local_discovery.yml
+    - unarchive-fix-bin-checking.yml
+    - v2.11.4rc1_summary.yaml
+    - when-eval-native-py310.yml
+    release_date: '2021-08-10'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.11.4rc1_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.11.4rc1_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d11418b2622
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.11.4rc1_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2021-08-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
diff --git a/lib/ansible/release.py b/lib/ansible/release.py
index 8cf24023a8a..fba17f0cb71 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/release.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/release.py
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-__version__ = '2.11.3.post0'
+__version__ = '2.11.4rc1'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = 'Hey Hey, What Can I Do'