diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 453b9c50..68442f33 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ latest changes in development for next release
 
 .. THANKS FOR CONTRIBUTING; MENTION WHAT YOU DID IN THIS SECTION HERE!
 
+
+1.2.0
+-----
+
 * support for ``.tiff`` files (`#81`_)
 
 * added support for other languages for tesseract (`#76`_ by `@anderser`_)
diff --git a/textract/__init__.py b/textract/__init__.py
index 7f9617c6..0cda7681 100644
--- a/textract/__init__.py
+++ b/textract/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-VERSION = "1.1.0"
+VERSION = "1.2.0"
 
 from .parsers import process