diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d3e173c6087c..00d37cc87796 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+python3-oq-engine (3.12.1-1~xenial01) xenial; urgency=low
+
   [Michele Simionato]
   * Fixed a bug in event_based_risk with nontrivial taxonomy mapping producing
     NaNs in the event loss table
@@ -10,6 +12,8 @@
     get_array_usgs_id() got an unexpected keyword argument 'id'
   * Fixed the Abrahamson Gulerce GMPE failing with a scalar<->array error
 
+ -- Matteo Nastasi (GEM Foundation) <nastasi@openquake.org>  Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:57:05 +0000
+
 python3-oq-engine (3.12.0-1~xenial01) xenial; urgency=low
 
   [Marco Pagani]
diff --git a/openquake/baselib/__init__.py b/openquake/baselib/__init__.py
index e91ab3fb734f..046b3f4b1716 100644
--- a/openquake/baselib/__init__.py
+++ b/openquake/baselib/__init__.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 from openquake.baselib.general import git_suffix  # noqa: E402
 
 # the version is managed by packager.sh with a sed
-__version__ = '3.12.0'
+__version__ = '3.12.1'
 __version__ += git_suffix(__file__)
 
 version = dict(engine=__version__,