diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 143abca..18ce48e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.5.0-rc.1] - 2024-04-09
+
+### Features
+
+* Added hints to some health check outputs to help users resolve potential issues. (09e0860)
+* New health check for NVMe-oF resource agents. (d3441f5)
+* New health check for SCST kernel modules and user space utilities. (138c1f6)
+* The drbd-reactor health check now also checks that if the `drbd-reactor-reload.{path,service}` files are up-to-date. (2c40ff0)
+* When creating a resource, linstor-gateway now waits a few seconds to ensure that the resource is actually running. This prevents situations where the resource fails to start, but linstor-gateway still reports it as "running". (2c40ff0)
+* Various improvements to the end-to-end tests.
+
 ## [1.4.0] - 2024-03-04
 
 * No changes over rc1
@@ -262,7 +273,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 * First released version
 * REST API version 1.0.0
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.4.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.5.0-rc.1...HEAD
+[1.5.0-rc.1]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.4.0...v1.5.0-rc.1
 [1.4.0]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.4.0-rc.1...v1.4.0
 [1.4.0-rc.1]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0-rc.1
 [1.3.0]: https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-gateway/compare/v1.3.0-rc.1...v1.3.0
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bc4ac7d..7380618 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+linstor-gateway (1.5.0~rc.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release
+
+ -- Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>  Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:52:26 +0200
+
 linstor-gateway (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
diff --git a/linstor-gateway.spec b/linstor-gateway.spec
index ecd8791..e6c9d8d 100644
--- a/linstor-gateway.spec
+++ b/linstor-gateway.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name: linstor-gateway
-Version: 1.4.0
+Version: 1.5.0~rc.1
 Release: 1
 Summary: Exposes highly available LINSTOR storage via iSCSI, NFS, or NVMe-OF.
 %global tarball_version %(echo "%{version}" | sed -e 's/~rc/-rc/' -e 's/~alpha/-alpha/')
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ find %{_datadir}/doc/drbd-reactor* \
 	%{_firewalldir}/services/%{name}.xml
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 09 2024 Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> - 1.5.0~rc.1-1
+-  New upstream release
+
 * Mon Mar 04 2024 Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> - 1.4.0-1
 -  New upstream release