diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e680a4ab..1650a2c7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+v1.2, 2014-09-19
+    * Cache speaker image from URL, using face recognition for thumbnail
+    * Improve display of subsections on section pages
+    * Unicode slug support
+    * Paginate /speeches
+    * Link truncated speech text to speech
+    * Tweaks to speech templates, including showing speech titles
+    * Add a date picker to speech/ section forms
+    * Unhide unimportant form sections which contain errors
+    * More translatable strings, including form labels
+    * Reduce database queries in get_ancestors and search indexing
+    * Model additions:
+        * Speech 'type'
+        * Section start date and time
+        * Section/Speech num, heading (renamed from title) and subheading
+    * Akoma Ntoso import
+        * Allow anonymous speeches
+        * Add support for more preface elements
+    * Development
+        * Easier local development settings override
+        * No requirement to have auth middleware installed
+
+Thanks to James McKinney, Duncan Parkes, Matthew Somerville, Martin Wright, and
+Zarino Zappia for their work on this release.
+
 v1.1.1, 2014-07-04
     * Switch to PyPI-hosted fork of django-bleach to remove extra step running
       under Python 3.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c0903a85..297b42c0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def read_file(filename):
 
 setup(
     name="django-sayit",
-    version='1.1.1',
+    version='1.2',
     description='A data store for speeches and transcripts to make them searchable and pretty.',
     long_description=read_file('README.rst'),
     author='mySociety',