diff --git a/.tito/packages/mock b/.tito/packages/mock
index d1fe7374f..e848bc9d4 100644
--- a/.tito/packages/mock
+++ b/.tito/packages/mock
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.3-1 mock/
+5.4-1 mock/
diff --git a/docs/Release-Notes-5.4.md b/docs/Release-Notes-5.4.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b56cb0311
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/Release-Notes-5.4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+layout: default
+title: Release Notes - Mock 5.4 (bugfix release)
+---
+
+Released on 2024-01-04.
+
+### Mock 5.4 bugfixes
+
+- This release fixes how the rpmautospec plugin installs its dependencies into
+  the build root, see [PR#1275][] for more info.
+
+[PR#1275]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/pull/1275
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index f457d6d88..0c31d49f9 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Versions in Linux distributions:
 
 
 ## Release Notes
+* [5.4](Release-Notes-5.4) (2024-01-04) - Bugfix the rpmautospec plugin.
 * [5.3](Release-Notes-5.3) (2023-12-13) - New "rpmautospec" plugin added, `%generate_buildrequries` fixes landed.
 * [Configs 39.3](Release-Notes-Configs-39.3) - Fedora 40+ configuration uses DNF5, Fedora ELN and OpenMandriva fixes.
 * [Configs 39.2](Release-Notes-39.2) - Fedora ELN and openSUSE fixes.
diff --git a/mock/mock.spec b/mock/mock.spec
index 2ccaeb1b1..995ecbb92 100644
--- a/mock/mock.spec
+++ b/mock/mock.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Summary: Builds packages inside chroots
 Name: mock
-Version: 5.3
+Version: 5.4
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Source is created by
@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ pylint-3 py/mockbuild/ py/*.py py/mockbuild/plugins/* || :
 %dir  %{_datadir}/cheat
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 04 2024 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> 5.4-1
+- Fix installing rpmautospec plugin dependencies (yzhu@redhat.com)
+
 * Wed Dec 13 2023 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> 5.3-1
 - orphanskill: log command line arguments of the terminated process
 - docs: migrate the community from IRC to Matrix
diff --git a/releng/release-notes-next/rpmautospec-plugin-fix-install-deps.bugfix b/releng/release-notes-next/rpmautospec-plugin-fix-install-deps.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index dfa63ae47..000000000
--- a/releng/release-notes-next/rpmautospec-plugin-fix-install-deps.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-This release fixes how the rpmautospec plugin installs its dependencies into the build root.