diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.5.0-rc.1] - 2026-03-12
+
+> 憎しみを束ねてもそれは脆い！
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> runc v1.5.0-rc.1 includes all of the patches backported to runc v1.4.1.
+
 ### libcontainer API ###
 - The following deprecated Go APIs have been removed:
   - `CleanPath`, `StripRoot`, and `WithProcfd` from `libcontainer/utils`. Note
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
     - `libcontainer/configs.NewWeightDevice`
     - `libcontainer/configs.NewThrottleDevice`
   - `libcontainer/configs.HookList.RunHooks`. (#5141)
-  - `libcontainer/configs.MPOL_*` (#5414)
+  - `libcontainer/configs.MPOL_*` (#5141)
   - All of the types in `libcontainer/devices` which are now maintained in
     `github.com/opencontainers/cgroups/devices/config` (#5141):
     - `libcontainer/devices.Wildcard`
@@ -40,27 +47,96 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
     - `libcontainer/devices.Permissions`
     - `libcontainer/devices.Type`
     - `libcontainer/devices.Rule`
+- `libcontainer.Process` methods (`Wait`, `Pid`, `Signal`) and
+  `libcontainer/configs.Config` methods (`HostUID`, `HostRootUID`, `HostGID`,
+  `HostRootGID`) now use pointer receivers. (#5088)
+- The example code for `libcontainer` has been moved out of a `README` and into
+  a proper `Example*` test file that will be compile-tested by our CI. As
+  mentioned elsewhere, we still *do not* recommend users make use of the
+  `libcontainer` API directly. (#5127)
+
+### Deprecated ###
+- The `libcontainer/configs.Mount.Relabel` configuration field (used to relabel
+  mounts with the `z` and `Z` "pseudo" mount options) was never accessible
+  outside of the libcontainer API, and in practice the relabel logic has always
+  lived in higher level runtimes. It has been made into a no-op and the field
+  will be removed entirely in runc 1.7. (#5152, #5160)
 
 ### Removed ###
 - The `memfd-bind` helper binary has been removed, as it has never been
   particularly useful and was completely obsoleted by the changes to
   `/proc/self/exe` sealing we introduced in runc [1.2.0][]. (#5141)
 
+### Added ###
+- User-namespaced containers can now configure `user.*` sysctls. (#4889)
+- Intel RDT: the RDT subdirectory is now only removed if runc created it,
+  matching the updated runtime-spec guidance. (#3832, #5155)
+
 ### Changed ###
 - Our release binaries and default build configuration now use [libpathrs][] by
-  default, providiung better hardening against certain kinds of attacks. Users
-  of runc should not see any changes as a result of this, but pacakgers will
+  default, providing better hardening against certain kinds of attacks. Users
+  of runc should not see any changes as a result of this, but packagers will
   need to adjust their packaging accordingly. runc can still be built without
   libpathrs (by building without the `libpathrs` build tag), but we currently
   plan to make runc 1.6 *require* libpathrs. (#5103)
+- `runc exec` will now request systemd to move the `exec` process into the
+  container cgroup, making the procedure more rootless-friendly. (#4822)
+- seccomp: minor documentation updates. (#4902)
+- Errors from `runc init` have historically been quite painful to understand
+  and debug, we have made several improvements to make them more comprehensive
+  and thus useful when debugging issues. (#4951, #4928)
+- Update spec conformance documentation for OCI runtime-spec v1.3.0. (#4948,
+  #5150)
+- Our release archives now have the name `runc-$version.tar.xz` to make distro
+  packaging a little easier by matching the filename to the top-level directory
+  name in the archive. (#5052)
+
+[libpathrs]: https://github.com/cyphar/libpathrs
+
+## [1.4.1] - 2026-03-12
+
+> La guerre n'est pas une aventure. La guerre est une maladie. Comme le typhus.
+
+### Deprecated ###
+- `libcontainer/configs.MPOL_*` constants added in runc [1.4.0][]. (#5110,
+  #5055)
+
+### Added ###
+- Preliminary `loong64` support. (#5062, #4938)
+
+### Fixed ###
+- libct: fix panic in `initSystemdProps` when processing certain systemd
+  properties in the OCI spec. (#5161, #5133)
+- libct: fix several file descriptor leaks on error paths. (#5168, #5009)
+- Remove unnecessary `crypto/tls` dependency by open-coding the systemd socket
+  activation logic, allowing us to more easily avoid false positive CVE
+  warnings. (#5093, #5057)
+- Remove legacy `os.Is*` error usage, improving error type detection to make
+  our error fallback paths more robust. (#5162, #5061)
+- Go 1.26 has started enforcing a restriction of `os/exec.Cmd` which caused
+  issues with our usage of `CLONE_INTO_CGROUP` (on newer kernels). This has now
+  been resolved. (#5116, #5091)
+- Recursive `atime`-related mount flags (`rrelatime` et al.) are now applied
+  properly. (#5114, #5098)
+- Fix a regression in `runc exec` due to `CLONE_INTO_CGROUP` in the
+  (inadvisable) scenario where a container is configured without cgroup
+  namespaces and with `/sys/fs/cgroup` mounted `rw`. (#5117, #5101)
+- On machines with more than 1024 CPU cores, our logic for resetting the CPU
+  affinity will now correctly reset the affinity onto _all_ available cores
+  (not just the first 1024). (#5149, #5025)
+- PR #4757 caused a regression that resulted in spurious `cannot start a
+  container that has stopped` errors when running `runc create` and has thus
+  been reverted. (#5157, #5153, #5151, #4645, #4757)
+
+### Changed ###
 - Previously we made an attempt to make our `runc.armhf` release binaries work
   with ARMv6 (which would allow runc to work on the original Raspberry Pi).
   Unfortunately, this has effectively always been broken (because we
   cross-compile `libseccomp` within a Debian container and statically link to
   it) and so we are now officially matching [the Debian definition of `armhf`][debian-armhf]
-  (that is, ARMv7). (#5103)
+  (that is, ARMv7). (#5167, #5103)
+- Minor signing keyring updates. (#5147, #5139, #5144, #5148)
 
-[libpathrs]: https://github.com/cyphar/libpathrs
 [debian-armhf]: https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort
 
 ## [1.4.0] - 2025-11-27
@@ -91,9 +167,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - libct: fix mips compilation. (#4962, #4967)
 - When configuring a `tmpfs` mount, only set the `mode=` argument if the target
   path already existed. This fixes a regression introduced in our
-  [CVE-2025-52881][] mitigation patches. (#4971, #4976)
+  [CVE-2025-52881][] mitigation patches. (#4971, #4973, #4976)
 - Fix various file descriptor leaks and add additional tests to detect them as
-  comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5034)
+  comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5026, #5034)
 - The "hallucination" helpers added as part of the [CVE-2025-52881][]
   mitigation have been made more generic and now apply to all of our `pathrs`
   helper functions, which should ensure we will not regress dangling symlink
@@ -113,9 +189,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
  * libct: fix mips compilation. (#4962, #4966)
  * When configuring a `tmpfs` mount, only set the `mode=` argument if the
    target path already existed. This fixes a regression introduced in our
-   [CVE-2025-52881][] mitigation patches. (#4971, #4976)
+   [CVE-2025-52881][] mitigation patches. (#4971, #4973, #4976)
  * Fix various file descriptor leaks and add additional tests to detect them as
-   comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5034)
+   comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5026, #5034)
 
 ### Changed
  * Downgrade `github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin` dependency to `v0.5.2`,
@@ -134,7 +210,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
    target path already existed. This fixes a regression introduced in our
    [CVE-2025-52881][] mitigation patches. (#4971, #4974)
  * Fix various file descriptor leaks and add additional tests to detect them as
-   comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5027)
+   comprehensively as possible. (#5007, #5021, #5026, #5027)
 
 ### Changed
  * Downgrade `github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin` dependency to `v0.5.2`,
@@ -1606,8 +1682,13 @@ implementation (libcontainer) is *not* covered by this policy.
 [1.3.0-rc.1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0-rc.1
 
 <!-- 1.4.z patch releases -->
-[Unreleased 1.4.z]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0...release-1.4
+[Unreleased 1.4.z]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.1...release-1.4
+[1.4.1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0...v1.4.1
 [1.4.0]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0-rc.3...v1.4.0
 [1.4.0-rc.3]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0-rc.2...v1.4.0-rc.3
 [1.4.0-rc.2]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0-rc.1...v1.4.0-rc.2
 [1.4.0-rc.1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0-rc.1
+
+<!-- 1.5.z patch releases -->
+[Unreleased 1.5.z]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.5.0-rc.1...release-1.5
+[1.5.0-rc.1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.4.0...v1.5.0-rc.1
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 7293a77ece3..3d3c2776684 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.4.0-rc.1+dev
+1.5.0-rc.1+dev