diff --git a/CHANGELOG.prerelease.md b/CHANGELOG.prerelease.md
index 692c7edaf2e9..f2620f9f0f17 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.prerelease.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.prerelease.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+## 8.4.0-alpha.1
+
+- Addon-Interactions: Use ansi-to-html for colored test errors - [#29110](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29110), thanks @kasperpeulen!
+- Angular: Fix sourceDecorator to apply excludeDecorators flag - [#29069](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29069), thanks @JSMike!
+- CLI: Fix skip-install for stable latest releases - [#29133](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29133), thanks @valentinpalkovic!
+- Core: Do not add packageManager field to package.json during `storybook dev` - [#29152](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29152), thanks @valentinpalkovic!
+- Core: Do not prebundle better-opn - [#29137](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29137), thanks @valentinpalkovic!
+- Core: Do not prebundle jsdoc-type-pratt-parser - [#29134](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29134), thanks @valentinpalkovic!
+- Core: Replace `fs-extra` with the native APIs - [#29126](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29126), thanks @ziebam!
+- Next.js: Upgrade sass-loader from ^12 to ^13 - [#29040](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29040), thanks @HoncharenkoZhenya!
+- React-Vite: Downgrade react-docgen-typescript plugin - [#29184](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29184), thanks @shilman!
+
 ## 8.4.0-alpha.0
 
 
diff --git a/code/package.json b/code/package.json
index af2a344764ec..a6bd01ea00a2 100644
--- a/code/package.json
+++ b/code/package.json
@@ -293,5 +293,6 @@
         "Dependency Upgrades"
       ]
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  "deferredNextVersion": "8.4.0-alpha.1"
 }
diff --git a/docs/versions/next.json b/docs/versions/next.json
index 9963ff265181..0aa30f18cf4a 100644
--- a/docs/versions/next.json
+++ b/docs/versions/next.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"version":"8.4.0-alpha.0","info":{"plain":""}}
+{"version":"8.4.0-alpha.1","info":{"plain":"- Addon-Interactions: Use ansi-to-html for colored test errors - [#29110](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29110), thanks @kasperpeulen!\n- Angular: Fix sourceDecorator to apply excludeDecorators flag - [#29069](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29069), thanks @JSMike!\n- CLI: Fix skip-install for stable latest releases - [#29133](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29133), thanks @valentinpalkovic!\n- Core: Do not add packageManager field to package.json during `storybook dev` - [#29152](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29152), thanks @valentinpalkovic!\n- Core: Do not prebundle better-opn - [#29137](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29137), thanks @valentinpalkovic!\n- Core: Do not prebundle jsdoc-type-pratt-parser - [#29134](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29134), thanks @valentinpalkovic!\n- Core: Replace `fs-extra` with the native APIs - [#29126](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29126), thanks @ziebam!\n- Next.js: Upgrade sass-loader from ^12 to ^13 - [#29040](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29040), thanks @HoncharenkoZhenya!\n- React-Vite: Downgrade react-docgen-typescript plugin - [#29184](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/29184), thanks @shilman!"}}