diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 2174624d..b5a1b553 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 ## History / Changelog
 
 
+## 1.12.2
+
+- downloads: add support for SOCKS proxies with @gremid (#682)
+- extraction fix: ValueError in table spans (#685)
+- spider: `prune_xpath` parameter added by @felipehertzer (#684)
+- spider: relax strict parameter for link extraction (#687)
+- sitemaps: `max_sitemaps` parameter added by @felipehertzer (#690)
+- maintenance: make compression libraries optional (#691)
+- metadata: review and lint code (#694)
+
+
 ### 1.12.1
 
 Navigation:
diff --git a/trafilatura/__init__.py b/trafilatura/__init__.py
index d0b4834e..fbf46743 100644
--- a/trafilatura/__init__.py
+++ b/trafilatura/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 __author__ = 'Adrien Barbaresi and contributors'
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2019-2024, Adrien Barbaresi'
-__version__ = '1.12.1'
+__version__ = '1.12.2'
 
 
 import logging