diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 8b6b9468..2174624d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 ## History / Changelog
 
 
+### 1.12.1
+
+Navigation:
+- spider: restrict search to sections containing URL path (#673)
+- crawler: add parameter class and types, **breaking change** for undocumented functions (#675)
+- maintenance: simplify link discovery and extend tests (#674)
+- CLI: review code, add types and tests (#677)
+
+Bugfixes:
+- fix `AttributeError` in element deletion (#668)
+- fix `MemoryError` in table header columns (#665)
+
+Docs:
+- docs: fix variable name for extract_metadata in quickstart by @jpigla in #678
+
+
 ### 1.12.0
 
 Breaking change:
diff --git a/trafilatura/__init__.py b/trafilatura/__init__.py
index d5d2cc96..d0b4834e 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__ = '1.12.0'
+__version__ = '1.12.1'
 
 
 import logging