diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b1b63b2..f5da405 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
+Wednesday, February 24, 2016
+====================================
+
+- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
+  non-zero mark advances.  This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
+  trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
+  I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
+  like what we had before.  All clients who updated to 1.2.0
+  should update to this version.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
-Friday, February 23, 2016
+Tuesday, February 23, 2016
 ====================================
 
 - CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d12d4b8..d87b746 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.2.1],
+        [1.2.2],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])