diff --git a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst
index 1f0a790ce34..777fbf58814 100644
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,30 @@ ansible-core 2.13 "Nobody's Fault but Mine" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v2.13.4rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-09-06
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix detection of ``--role-file`` in arguments for implicit role invocation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78204)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix exit codes for role search and delete (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78516)
+- ansible-test - Fix change detection for ansible-test's own integration tests.
+- ansible-test - ansible-doc sanity test - Correctly determine the fully-qualified collection name for plugins in subdirectories, resolving https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78490.
+- apt - don't actually update the cache in check mode with update_cache=true.
+- apt - don't mark existing packages as manually installed in check mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66413).
+- apt - fix package selection to include /etc/apt/preferences(.d) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77969)
+- urls - Guard imports of ``urllib3`` by catching ``Exception`` instead of ``ImportError`` to prevent exceptions in the import process of optional dependencies from preventing use of ``urls.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78648)
+- wait_for - Read file and perform comparisons using bytes to avoid decode errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78214)
+
 v2.13.3
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 5eb38f48b34..7f326f23794 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1003,3 +1003,39 @@ releases:
     - type_shim_exception_swallow.yml
     - v2.13.3rc1_summary.yaml
     release_date: '2022-08-08'
+  2.13.4rc1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
+      - ansible-galaxy - Fix detection of ``--role-file`` in arguments for implicit
+        role invocation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78204)
+      - ansible-galaxy - Fix exit codes for role search and delete (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78516)
+      - ansible-test - Fix change detection for ansible-test's own integration tests.
+      - ansible-test - ansible-doc sanity test - Correctly determine the fully-qualified
+        collection name for plugins in subdirectories, resolving https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78490.
+      - apt - don't actually update the cache in check mode with update_cache=true.
+      - apt - don't mark existing packages as manually installed in check mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66413).
+      - apt - fix package selection to include /etc/apt/preferences(.d) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77969)
+      - urls - Guard imports of ``urllib3`` by catching ``Exception`` instead of ``ImportError``
+        to prevent exceptions in the import process of optional dependencies from
+        preventing use of ``urls.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78648)
+      - wait_for - Read file and perform comparisons using bytes to avoid decode errors
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78214)
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2022-09-06
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+        '
+    codename: Nobody's Fault but Mine
+    fragments:
+    - 74446-network-conn-options.yaml
+    - 77969-apt-preferences.yml
+    - 78204-galaxy-role-file-detection.yml
+    - 78214-wait-for-compare-bytes.yml
+    - 78496-fix-apt-check-mode.yml
+    - 78516-galaxy-cli-exit-codes.yml
+    - 78648-urllib3-import-exceptions.yml
+    - ansible-test-ansible-doc-sanity-fqcn.yml
+    - ansible-test-self-change-classification.yml
+    - v2.13.4rc1_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2022-09-06'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.13.4rc1_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.13.4rc1_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..07a694f2258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.13.4rc1_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2022-09-06
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
diff --git a/lib/ansible/release.py b/lib/ansible/release.py
index f479c0b8fd3..3297f14dac9 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__ = '2.13.3.post0'
+__version__ = '2.13.4rc1'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = "Nobody's Fault but Mine"