diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e253dd603..49fc669a4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "base64 0.21.2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0784bd25d..4fb8fac60 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["konstin <konstin@mailbox.org>", "messense <messense@icloud.com>"]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.2.0"
 description = "Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages"
 exclude = [
   "test-crates/**/*",
diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 19307c03c..6208897ef 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.2.0] - 2023-08-06
+
 * Add basic support for implicit namespaces [#1645](https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/pull/1696)
 * Add Linux mips64 and mips architecture support in [#1712](https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/pull/1712)
 * Add `x86_64h-apple-darwin` target support in [#1717](https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/pull/1717)
@@ -889,7 +891,8 @@ points-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl | 2,8M | 752K | 85K
 
  * Initial Release
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v1.1.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v1.2.0...HEAD
+[1.2.0]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0
 [1.1.0]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v1.0.1...v1.1.0
 [1.0.1]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1
 [1.0.0]: https://github.com/pyo3/maturin/compare/v0.15.3...v1.0.0