diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d8daee7..b1b63b2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
+Friday, February 23, 2016
+====================================
+
+- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
+  https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
+- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
+- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
+- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
+  https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/217
+- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
 Friday, February 19, 2016
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d4c8f95..d12d4b8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.2.0],
+        [1.2.1],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])