diff --git a/.changelog/14897.txt b/.changelog/14897.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b5ded20a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/14897.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Fix a race condition where the snapshot file is closed without being opened
+```
+
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Allow nonVoter to initiate an election to avoid having an election infinite loop when a Voter is converted to NonVoter 
+```
+
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Cap maximum grpc wait time when heartbeating to heartbeatTimeout/2
+```
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3bb513fa0..80a00e53f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go v0.23.1-0.20220921131124-49168300a7dc
 	github.com/hashicorp/hil v0.0.0-20200423225030-a18a1cd20038
 	github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.5.0
-	github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.9
+	github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.11
 	github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6
 	github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/v2 v2.2.2
 	github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.10.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 997d179ec..2a15355f3 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -518,8 +518,8 @@ github.com/hashicorp/net-rpc-msgpackrpc v0.0.0-20151116020338-a14192a58a69/go.mo
 github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.1.0/go.mod h1:4Ak7FSPnuvmb0GV6vgIAJ4vYT4bek9bb6Q+7HVbyzqM=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.1.1/go.mod h1:vPAJM8Asw6u8LxC3eJCUZmRP/E4QmUGE1R7g7k8sG/8=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.2.0/go.mod h1:vPAJM8Asw6u8LxC3eJCUZmRP/E4QmUGE1R7g7k8sG/8=
-github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.9 h1:9yuo1aR0bFTr1cw7pj3S2Bk6MhJCsnr2NAxvIBrP2x4=
-github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.9/go.mod h1:4Ak7FSPnuvmb0GV6vgIAJ4vYT4bek9bb6Q+7HVbyzqM=
+github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.11 h1:p3v6gf6l3S797NnK5av3HcczOC1T5CLoaRvg0g9ys4A=
+github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.3.11/go.mod h1:J8naEwc6XaaCfts7+28whSeRvCqTd6e20BlCU3LtEO4=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6 h1:C1q3RNF2FfXNZfHWbvVAu0QixaQK8K5pX4O5lh+9z4I=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6/go.mod h1:Af4jZBwaNOI+tXfIqIdbcAnh/UyyqIMj/pOISIfhArw=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb v0.0.0-20171010151810-6e5ba93211ea/go.mod h1:pNv7Wc3ycL6F5oOWn+tPGo2gWD4a5X+yp/ntwdKLjRk=