diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 9d786bd..ac95b6c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+swift-bench (1.2)
+
+    * updated setup.cfg for release tooling
+
 swift-bench (1.1)
 
     * Added a storage policy option to allow containers to be created
diff --git a/swiftbench/__init__.py b/swiftbench/__init__.py
index 45dccdb..58d478a 100644
--- a/swiftbench/__init__.py
+++ b/swiftbench/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.2-dev'
+__version__ = '1.2.0'