diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..883ae896f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v2.7.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.7.3
+------------------
+
+ * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
+   corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
+   pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API.  Both of
+   these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
+   when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index c3ec13b5a..0305065d5 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.7.3
+DEF_VER=v2.7.4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 65d6f36d3..c66ca6800 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt
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