diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bb6001310..9ef9e1b46 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,15 +19,15 @@ ENHANCEMENTS:
 
 * config: Terraform now checks the syntax of and normalizes module source addresses (the `source` argument in `module` blocks) during configuration decoding rather than only at module installation time. This is largely just an internal refactoring, but a visible benefit of this change is that the `terraform init` messages about module downloading will now show the canonical module package address Terraform is downloading from, after interpreting the special shorthands for common cases like GitHub URLs. ([#28854](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/28854))
 * `terraform plan` and `terraform apply`: Terraform will now report explicitly in the UI if it automatically moves a resource instance to a new address as a result of adding or removing the `count` argument from an existing resource. For example, if you previously had `resource "aws_subnet" "example"` _without_ `count`, you might have `aws_subnet.example` already bound to a remote object in your state. If you add `count = 1` to that resource then Terraform would previously silently rebind the object to `aws_subnet.example[0]` as part of planning, whereas now Terraform will mention that it did so explicitly in the plan description. ([#29605](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29605))
-* `terraform workspace delete`: will now allow deleting a workspace whose state contains only data resource instances and output values, without running `terraform destroy` first. Previously the presence of data resources would require using `-force` to override the safety check guarding against accidentally forgetting about remote objects, but a data resource is not responsible for the management of its associated remote object(s) anyway. [GH-29754]
-* provisioner/remote-exec and provisioner/file: When using SSH agent authentication mode on Windows, Terraform can now detect and use [the Windows 10 built-in OpenSSH Client](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/using-the-openssh-beta-in-windows-10-fall-creators-update-and-windows-server-1709/)'s SSH Agent, when available, in addition to the existing support for the third-party solution [Pageant](https://documentation.help/PuTTY/pageant.html) that was already supported. [GH-29747]
+* `terraform workspace delete`: will now allow deleting a workspace whose state contains only data resource instances and output values, without running `terraform destroy` first. Previously the presence of data resources would require using `-force` to override the safety check guarding against accidentally forgetting about remote objects, but a data resource is not responsible for the management of its associated remote object(s) anyway. ([#29754](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29754))
+* provisioner/remote-exec and provisioner/file: When using SSH agent authentication mode on Windows, Terraform can now detect and use [the Windows 10 built-in OpenSSH Client](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/using-the-openssh-beta-in-windows-10-fall-creators-update-and-windows-server-1709/)'s SSH Agent, when available, in addition to the existing support for the third-party solution [Pageant](https://documentation.help/PuTTY/pageant.html) that was already supported. ([#29747](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29747))
 
 BUG FIXES:
 
 * core: Fixed an issue where provider configuration input variables were not properly merging with values in configuration ([#29000](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29000))
-* core: Reduce scope of dependencies that may defer reading of data sources when using `depends_on` or directly referencing managed resources [GH-29682]
+* core: Reduce scope of dependencies that may defer reading of data sources when using `depends_on` or directly referencing managed resources ([#29682](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29682))
 * cli: Blocks using SchemaConfigModeAttr in the provider SDK can now represented in the plan json output ([#29522](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29522))
-* cli: Prevent applying a stale planfile when there was no previous state [GH-29755]
+* cli: Prevent applying a stale planfile when there was no previous state ([#29755](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29755))
 
 ## Previous Releases
 
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 86f22153d..61d155e55 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ var Version = "1.1.0"
 // A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 // then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 // such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-var Prerelease = "dev"
+var Prerelease = "alpha20211020"
 
 // SemVer is an instance of version.Version. This has the secondary
 // benefit of verifying during tests and init time that our version is a