diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index f7f9637cca..112aec01ea 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ test/data/legacy-sstables/**
 examples/pig/**
 examples/hadoop_word_count/conf/log4j.properties
 pylib/cqlshlib/test/**
+src/resources/org/apache/cassandra/config/version.properties
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 23f8c712b3..2a6c5240e6 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="1.2.13"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="1.2.14"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b419cb7f42..472063e65b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>  Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:29:13 +0100
+
 cassandra (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New release
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/BatchlogManagerTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/BatchlogManagerTest.java
index 637815b21e..08728fcc50 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/BatchlogManagerTest.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/BatchlogManagerTest.java
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
 package org.apache.cassandra.db;
 
 import java.net.InetAddress;