diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4561358712..773e840630 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-## 1.14.0 (Unreleased)
-
-
 EXPERIMENTS:
 
 Experiments are only enabled in alpha releases of Terraform CLI. The following features are not yet available in stable releases.
diff --git a/version/VERSION b/version/VERSION
index 2f2e08cfa3..b2680d62e9 100644
--- a/version/VERSION
+++ b/version/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.14.0-dev
+1.14.0-alpha20250716