diff --git a/Makefile.rhelver b/Makefile.rhelver
index 1885d4e36..4ae876358 100644
--- a/Makefile.rhelver
+++ b/Makefile.rhelver
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ RHEL_MINOR = 1
 #
 # Use this spot to avoid future merge conflicts.
 # Do not trim this comment.
-RHEL_RELEASE = 73
+RHEL_RELEASE = 74
 
 #
 # ZSTREAM
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index c39723de8..2d885697b 100755
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -121,13 +121,13 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 %define kversion 5.14
 
 %define rpmversion 5.14.0
-%define pkgrelease 73.el9
+%define pkgrelease 74.el9
 
 # This is needed to do merge window version magic
 %define patchlevel 14
 
 # allow pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 73%{?buildid}%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 74%{?buildid}%{?dist}
 
 %define pkg_release %{specrelease}
 
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ BuildRequires: lld
 # exact git commit you can run
 #
 # xzcat -qq ${TARBALL} | git get-tar-commit-id
-Source0: linux-5.14.0-73.el9.tar.xz
+Source0: linux-5.14.0-74.el9.tar.xz
 
 Source1: Makefile.rhelver
 
@@ -1346,8 +1346,8 @@ ApplyOptionalPatch()
   fi
 }
 
-%setup -q -n kernel-5.14.0-73.el9 -c
-mv linux-5.14.0-73.el9 linux-%{KVERREL}
+%setup -q -n kernel-5.14.0-74.el9 -c
+mv linux-5.14.0-74.el9 linux-%{KVERREL}
 
 cd linux-%{KVERREL}
 cp -a %{SOURCE1} .
@@ -2966,6 +2966,11 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 22 2022 Patrick Talbert <ptalbert@redhat.com> [5.14.0-74.el9]
+- redhat: rpminspect: disable 'patches' check for known empty patch files (Patrick Talbert)
+- KVM: x86/mmu: Don't advance iterator after restart due to yielding (Nico Pache) [2055725]
+- ibmvnic: don't release napi in __ibmvnic_open() (Diego Domingos) [2055981]
+
 * Sun Mar 20 2022 Patrick Talbert <ptalbert@redhat.com> [5.14.0-73.el9]
 - CI: Use 9.0-rt branch for rhel-9 realtime_check (Juri Lelli)
 - redhat: enable zstream release numbering for rhel 9.0 (Herton R. Krzesinski)
diff --git a/rpminspect.yaml b/rpminspect.yaml
index 4c059887f..727e877fe 100644
--- a/rpminspect.yaml
+++ b/rpminspect.yaml
@@ -19,3 +19,8 @@ emptyrpm:
         - kernel-zfcpdump
         - kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched
         - kernel-zfcpdump-modules
+
+patches:
+    ignore_list:
+        - linux-kernel-test.patch
+        - patch-5.14.0-redhat.patch
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index cadc731f6..bdf155a4c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-73.el9.tar.xz) = cdd89891ac8afc5aa7a38113968b3d750fcf7618cb91b19a9aed95d2b929c01ab0367a17249452cd4632b6e577a7431b22d31d9fe76a9edd81f0c5b901d5a388
-SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-73.el9.tar.bz2) = 463114f715d4dc1446c48596f881d8de126aefdd946659786c10afd21b291302439f56cf3deaaa1d2ecf471eafb36d63be278123374172062ec0811a2b607761
-SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-73.el9.tar.bz2) = b07e3d6617cc434bf03eb165691b8b64418260e0a97bf3da3959aa03d142ff345c94b4a0f0856246d2b2c6a6a713fd6495e9f2cb73244cf4cfc5a4b7525e7674
+SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-74.el9.tar.xz) = 2eb3b88dd351b8f24898f32fd3f2fba3e9091086eb170790a1601d082f5ecd22bdc94c8f98795ba6f46ef33cb8aee435621b85063b31d7af5485ff6874225a07
+SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-74.el9.tar.bz2) = fd6378513c3b3b21e3a95c4480b2ffd4af6f6a2edf787d1c539cbf1e9d6e0af555c0eb79d8a55e160534c6480bd423619ad2a4f117a34d2aa3deb0c87bb753fa
+SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-74.el9.tar.bz2) = b07e3d6617cc434bf03eb165691b8b64418260e0a97bf3da3959aa03d142ff345c94b4a0f0856246d2b2c6a6a713fd6495e9f2cb73244cf4cfc5a4b7525e7674