diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f0a7d1e..a4914bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+1.2.0
+
+- New Feature: identify windows by clicking on them (Simon Steinbeiss, Florian Schüller)
+- Give the filter/search entry focus by default (Bug #11868)
+- Add delete and shift/delete keyboard shortcuts to the treeview
+- Improve kill and terminate dialog wording
+- Add Ctrl+q keyboard shortcut to close the taskmanager
+- Improve memory usage on FreeBSD system (Olivier Duchateau)
+- Lots and lots of translation updates (thanks to everyone!)
+
 1.1.0
 
 - Initial port to Gtk3, use --enable-gtk3 to test it (Gtk2 is still the default)
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index fe9a32a..c4be31c 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ dnl ***************************
 dnl *** Version information ***
 dnl ***************************
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_major], [1])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_minor], [1])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [1])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_minor], [2])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [0])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version], [taskmanager_version_major().taskmanager_version_minor().taskmanager_version_micro()ifelse(taskmanager_version_tag(), [git], [taskmanager_version_tag()-taskmanager_version_build()], [taskmanager_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl ***************************