diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ab6083360f..40937ef098 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+### 1.2.6
+  * 1192bd6 - Merge pull request #173 from copalco/master (Elliott Murray, Thu Sep 10 15:30:07 2020 +0100)
+  * 5db7100 - feat(verifier): allow to use unauthenticated brokers (Piotr Kopalko, Thu Sep 10 14:12:12 2020 +0200)
 ### 1.2.5
   * 46372c7 - Merge pull request #171 from m-aciek/enable-pending (Elliott Murray, Wed Sep 9 10:03:02 2020 +0100)
   * e840587 - fix(verifier): remove superfluous verbose mentions (Maciej Olko, Sat Sep 5 21:33:52 2020 +0200)
diff --git a/pact/__version__.py b/pact/__version__.py
index 0d4cb5091b..b6cfd0c751 100644
--- a/pact/__version__.py
+++ b/pact/__version__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Pact version info."""
 
-__version__ = '1.2.5'
+__version__ = '1.2.6'