diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ee2212f..70b89e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.2.0] - 2025-01-07
+- Remove unsafe code from encoder while improving encoding performance by ~40% for mostly-ASCII inputs
+
 ## [1.1.0] - 2023-07-26
 - Add support for cp910
 - Note that yore 1.0.0+ is compatible with Rust 1.71.0(there was an issue created that yore 0.3.3 has problem with that version of Rust)
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 39b08b8..778df7d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "yore"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.2.0"
 authors = ["Andreas Liljeqvist <bonega@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 categories = ["encoding"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a1edf0f..f6d0eb7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 A Rust library for decoding and encoding character sets based on OEM code pages.
 
-[![yore at crates.io](https://img.shields.io/badge/crates.io-1.1.0-blue)](https://crates.io/crates/yore)
+[![yore at crates.io](https://img.shields.io/badge/crates.io-1.2.0-blue)](https://crates.io/crates/yore)
 [![yore at docs.rs](https://docs.rs/yore/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/yore)
 
 # Features
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Add `yore` to your `Cargo.toml` file.
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-yore = "1.1.0"
+yore = "1.2.0"
 ```
 
 # Examples