diff --git a/ares/CHANGES b/ares/CHANGES
index 81ef4e1a4587bcea42c4b45a27ee5f651249078f..cb7e81ecb5c9f09da79a056707d217aca27d8c2d 100644
--- a/ares/CHANGES
+++ b/ares/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+Version 1.4.0 (June 8, 2007)
+
 * June 4 2007 (Daniel Stenberg)
 
 - James Bursa reported a major memory problem when resolving multi-IP names
diff --git a/ares/Makefile.am b/ares/Makefile.am
index 55508989402091eb9da532eb95d0b18d0f085240..36d4a2f513691ce5dc8c214bd77fb342b37cb81d 100644
--- a/ares/Makefile.am
+++ b/ares/Makefile.am
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ MSVCFILES = vc/adig/adig.dep vc/adig/adig.dsp vc/vc.dsw vc/ahost/ahost.dep \
 # adig and ahost are just sample programs and thus not mentioned with the
 # regular sources and headers
 EXTRA_DIST = CHANGES README.cares Makefile.inc adig.c ahost.c $(man_MANS) \
- $(MSVCFILES) AUTHORS config-win32.h
+ $(MSVCFILES) AUTHORS config-win32.h RELEASE-NOTES
 
 
 VER=-version-info 1:0:0
diff --git a/ares/RELEASE-NOTES b/ares/RELEASE-NOTES
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a497a70d4403dafd1219125a1db35518456f6e82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ares/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+This is what's new and changed in the c-ares 1.4.0 release:
+
+ o fixed VS2005 compiler warnings due to time_t being 64bit
+ o introduced cryptographically secure transaction IDs
+ o added ares_save_options()
+ o added ares_destroy_options()
+ o added ares_process_fd()
+ o fixed undefined return value in init_by_resolv_conf() function for windows
+ o added ares_parse_ns_reply()
+ o fix failure to get the search sequence of /etc/hosts and DNS from
+   /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/host.conf or /etc/svc.conf when /etc/resolv.conf
+   did not exist
+ o when domains were sert in the options struct, and there were domain/search
+   entries in /etc/resolv.conf, the domains of the options struct would be
+   overridden
+ o removed a couple of potential zero size memory allocations
+ o fixed the line endings in areslib.dsp
+
+Thanks go to these friendly people for their efforts and contributions:
+
+ Andreas Rieke, Yang Tse, Michael Wallner, Vlad Dinulescu, Ravi Pratap,
+ Brad House, Shmulik Regev, Brad Spencer
+
+Have fun!