diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4780180f..bc2059ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,6 +10,35 @@ or
 
 https://bitbucket.org/muonspin/musrfit/commits/all
 
+Release of V1.2.0, 2017/10/26
+=============================
+
+Adopted to be ready for rpm builds in a first step. This will be followed by debian style
+packages.
+
+Release of V1.1.0, 2017/10/26
+=============================
+
+Added full DKS support, i.e. additionally to CUDA also OpenCL for GPU's and CPU's in place.
+
+Release of V1.0.0, 2017/05/18
+=============================
+
+I feel that musrfit has majored enough to lift it to its first full version, i.e. V1.0.0.
+
+A lot of bug fixing went into it since 0.18.0. It is now also fully ROOT 6 compatible which
+is also the main supported version now.
+
+New features: 
+
+* musrWiz:  a wizard which will help the user to get started to generate msr-files.
+* musrStep: a little helper program which allows to reset the step size of a msr-file.
+            This is useful if you deal with a lot of detectors (e.g. HAL-9500 at PSI).
+* auto-phase correction of Fourier transforms: this is still in its early stage but will
+            eventually provide a real phase corrected Fourier transform, which will allow
+            a real Fourier detector average.
+* the startup file handling has improved substantially.        
+
 changes since 0.18.0
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0026ffb5..cc804f37 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 AC_REVISION([m4_esyscmd_s([git describe --always])])
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.63)
-AC_INIT([musrfit],[1.1.0],[andreas.suter@psi.ch])
+AC_INIT([musrfit],[1.2.0],[andreas.suter@psi.ch])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(admin)
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 #AC_MSG_RESULT([${host} ${host_cpu} ${host_vendor} ${host_os}])
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dnl -----------------------------------------------
 
 #release versioning
 MUSR_MAJOR_VERSION=1
-MUSR_MINOR_VERSION=1
+MUSR_MINOR_VERSION=2
 MUSR_MICRO_VERSION=0
 
 #release versioning