diff --git a/.buildkite/Manifest.toml b/.buildkite/Manifest.toml
index 92c848e8d2..1d66479232 100644
--- a/.buildkite/Manifest.toml
+++ b/.buildkite/Manifest.toml
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ weakdeps = ["CUDA", "MPI"]
 deps = ["Adapt", "BandedMatrices", "BlockArrays", "ClimaComms", "ClimaInterpolations", "CubedSphere", "DataStructures", "ForwardDiff", "GaussQuadrature", "GilbertCurves", "HDF5", "InteractiveUtils", "IntervalSets", "KrylovKit", "LLVM", "LazyBroadcast", "LinearAlgebra", "MultiBroadcastFusion", "NVTX", "PkgVersion", "Random", "RecursiveArrayTools", "RootSolvers", "SparseArrays", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "UnrolledUtilities"]
 path = ".."
 uuid = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
-version = "0.14.54"
+version = "0.14.55"
 weakdeps = ["CUDA", "GPUCompiler", "Krylov"]
 
     [deps.ClimaCore.extensions]
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f5a75dc90a..e3c247e251 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ ClimaCore.jl Release Notes
 main
 -------
 
+v0.14.55
+-------
+
+- Add a `reverse` option to the column integral operators (`column_reduce!` and
+  `column_accumulate!`) so vertical reductions and accumulations can proceed from
+  the top of a column downward. [2531](https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaCore.jl/pull/2531)
+
 v0.14.54
 -------
 
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 8cda7c259f..4f7c7e4835 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "ClimaCore"
 uuid = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
 authors = ["CliMA Contributors <clima-software@caltech.edu>"]
-version = "0.14.54"
+version = "0.14.55"
 
 [deps]
 Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"