diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index e59c4a4589..f51068a307 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,37 @@
+1.4.0-beta5 (2014-02-25)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- Feature: Warn the user about empty setting search results, and about missing setting search results due to filtering (r26322, r26321)
+- Feature: [NewGRF] Extend object variable 0x60 to also return the view [FS#5696] (r26316)
+- Feature: Allow map sizes up to 4096x4096 (r26319)
+- Feature: [NoGo] Allow GS to hide story page date (r26307)
+- Feature: [NoGo] More story APIs: RemovePageElement, GetCompany, GetDate, SetDate (r26306)
+- Feature: [NoGo] ScriptStoryPageElementList() - a list of all story page elements for a given page (r26305)
+- Feature: [NoGo] ScriptStoryPageList() - a list of all story pages (r26303)
+- Change: improve the performance of map generation (r26313, r26312, r26311, r26310, r26309, r26308)
+- Fix: Station sizes > 8 were always allowed [FS#5929] (r26375)
+- Fix: [NewGRF] Mixed up callback mask flags in station inspect window [FS#5928] (r26374)
+- Fix: Calling DoCommandP during the gameloop cleared pending persistent storage changes [FS#5831] (r26371)
+- Fix: [Windows] Use a separate event to indicate that the drawing thread has finished initialising, preventing potential deadlocks (r26367)
+- Fix: [Windows] Protect the whole video driver from concurrent access (r26366)
+- Fix: [Windows] Do not draw the cursor when its sprite is not ready and set _screen.dst_ptr immediately when the buffer changes [FS#5867] (r26365)
+- Fix: Writing out of the bounds of the rail type map [FS#5892] (r26364)
+- Fix: Reset the default window size icon size just like all the other cached icon sizes [FS#5906] (r26362)
+- Fix: ClientSizeChanged is only called via WndProcGdi which already has the mutex [FS#5922] (r26360)
+- Fix: Some order options do not combine with others, e.g. go via + full load [FS#5845] (r26357)
+- Fix: Protect all VideoDriver_SDL methods with the (now recursive) _draw_mutex (r26351)
+- Fix: Make sure link graph jobs can delete themselves after SLA_NULL [FS#5898] (r26347)
+- Fix: Call Layouter::ReduceLineCache from GenerateTownName in all cases to keep cache size in check [FS#5870] (r26346)
+- Fix: Rewrite SmallStack so that it does not use a pool and is reentrant (r26343)
+- Fix: Reroute cargo when automatic distribution is switched off [FS#5902] (r26341)
+- Fix: Do not redraw the link graph overlay if it is empty [FS#5908] (r26338)
+- Fix: Some inconsistencies regarding link graph (job) IDs (r26331)
+- Fix: The case of rerouting cargo from one VehicleCargoList to another (r26330)
+- Fix: Take care of next_station when reassigning from MTA_DELIVER to MTA_TRANSFER [FS#5901] (r26327)
+- Fix: when autosaving the message about a save already happening could be shown, even though the code's intention was to not show it [FS#5871] (r26326)
+- Fix: Check whether NewGRF change vehicle capacity when they are not supposed to, and truncate cargo appropiately if they are allowed to [FS#5897] (r26317)
+- Fix: The giant-screenshot confirmation window only triggered for rediculously big screenshots, for ludicrously big ones [FS#5899] (r26314)
+
+
 1.4.0-beta4 (2014-02-06)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 - Change: [NewGRF] Make vehicle variable 61 return 'not available' instead of zero when using it in invalid callback contexts (r26294)
diff --git a/known-bugs.txt b/known-bugs.txt
index 85e9240a1e..ac87bf3d87 100644
--- a/known-bugs.txt
+++ b/known-bugs.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 OpenTTD's known bugs
-Last updated:    2014-02-06
-Release version: 1.4.0-beta4
+Last updated:    2014-02-25
+Release version: 1.4.0-beta5
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
diff --git a/os/debian/changelog b/os/debian/changelog
index 1a93348700..ff655a1b4c 100644
--- a/os/debian/changelog
+++ b/os/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+openttd (1.4.0~beta5-0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release 1.4.0-beta5
+
+ -- OpenTTD <info@openttd.org>  Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:15:00 +0100
+
 openttd (1.4.0~beta4-0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release 1.4.0-beta4
diff --git a/os/windows/installer/install.nsi b/os/windows/installer/install.nsi
index 1bed99b8d0..e08a0ca833 100644
--- a/os/windows/installer/install.nsi
+++ b/os/windows/installer/install.nsi
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 !define APPV_MAJOR 1
 !define APPV_MINOR 4
 !define APPV_MAINT 0
-!define APPV_BUILD 3
-!define APPV_EXTRA "-beta4"
+!define APPV_BUILD 4
+!define APPV_EXTRA "-beta5"
 
 !define APPNAME "OpenTTD"   ; Define application name
 !define APPVERSION "${APPV_MAJOR}.${APPV_MINOR}.${APPV_MAINT}${APPV_EXTRA}"  ; Define application version
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 6467c3e12f..e89965cc3c 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Last updated:    2014-02-06
-Release version: 1.4.0-beta4
+Last updated:    2014-02-25
+Release version: 1.4.0-beta5
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