diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 35d64db194e..ef780ffc407 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -302,7 +302,11 @@
   <properties>
 
     <!-- project version -->
-    <revision>2.24.1-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+    <revision>2.24.1</revision>
+    <!-- Versions used on the site: no snapshots! -->
+    <site-log4j-api.version>2.24.1</site-log4j-api.version>
+    <site-log4j-core.version>2.24.1</site-log4j-core.version>
+    <site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>2.24.1</site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>
 
     <!-- =================
          Common properties
@@ -343,9 +347,6 @@
     <site-je.version>18.3.12</site-je.version>
     <site-jeromq.version>0.6.0</site-jeromq.version>
     <site-kafka.version>3.8.0</site-kafka.version>
-    <site-log4j-api.version>2.24.0</site-log4j-api.version>
-    <site-log4j-core.version>2.24.0</site-log4j-core.version>
-    <site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>2.24.0</site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>
     <site-logback.version>1.5.5</site-logback.version>
     <site-slf4j.version>2.0.16</site-slf4j.version>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release-notes.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release-notes.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..81f6635324d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release-notes.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+////
+    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
+
+         https://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.
+////
+
+[#release-notes-${release.version?replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "-", "r")}]
+== ${release.version}
+
+<#if release.date?has_content>Release date:: ${release.date}</#if>
+
+This release contains mainly bug fixes of problems encountered with the thread context map, logger registry and configuration reloading.
+
+It also enhances integration tests to use Docker images of the most recent releases of MongoDB and Elastic Search.
+
+<#include "../.changelog.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d089dffa127
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.24.1/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+<release xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+         date="2024-09-24" version="2.24.1"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/2229_mongodb_docker.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/2229_mongodb_docker.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/2229_mongodb_docker.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/2229_mongodb_docker.xml
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/2936_make_LoggerRegistry_MessageFactory_namespaced.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/2936_make_LoggerRegistry_MessageFactory_namespaced.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/2936_make_LoggerRegistry_MessageFactory_namespaced.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/2936_make_LoggerRegistry_MessageFactory_namespaced.xml
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/2937-http-watcher.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/2937-http-watcher.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/2937-http-watcher.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/2937-http-watcher.xml
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/2942_fix_ThreadContext_putAll.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/2942_fix_ThreadContext_putAll.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/2942_fix_ThreadContext_putAll.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/2942_fix_ThreadContext_putAll.xml
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/2953_enable_docker_for_JTL.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/2953_enable_docker_for_JTL.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/2953_enable_docker_for_JTL.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/2953_enable_docker_for_JTL.xml
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_logging_logging_parent.xml b/src/changelog/2.24.1/update_org_apache_logging_logging_parent.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_logging_logging_parent.xml
rename to src/changelog/2.24.1/update_org_apache_logging_logging_parent.xml