diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index efd547c97..5eeb2c7d9 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  ".": "14.4.0",
+  ".": "14.5.0",
   "fusillade-arsenal": "4.1.0",
   "fusillade-core": "6.0.0",
   "onwards": "1.2.0"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b504e874..035e4f63b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [14.5.0](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/compare/v14.4.0...v14.5.0) (2026-10-21)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **telemetry:** add JSON log format ([#2044](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2044)) ([1e87af0](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/1e87af07c096a8a028556794f649823e5c5a5e83))
+
 ## [14.4.0](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/compare/v14.3.1...v14.4.0) (2026-10-20)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4662f685e..0f798a134 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ checksum = "92773504d58c093f6de2459af4af33faa518c13451eb8f2b5698ed3d36e7c813"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "dwctl"
-version = "14.4.0"
+version = "14.5.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aes-gcm",
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/dwctl/Cargo.toml b/dwctl/Cargo.toml
index 2fe26c7b7..37c9bf147 100644
--- a/dwctl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dwctl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "dwctl"
-version = "14.4.0" # x-release-please-version
+version = "14.5.0" # x-release-please-version
 edition = "2024"
 publish = false
 description = "The Doubleword Control Layer - A self-hostable observability and analytics platform for LLM applications"