diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 741b5397..7cfa62fe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+0.12.0 2017.06.04
+=================
+
+- Python3 compatibility
+- New engines
+
+  - 1337x.to (files, music, video)
+  - Semantic Scholar (science)
+  - Library Genesis (general)
+  - Framalibre (IT)
+  - Free Software Directory (IT)
+- More compact result UI (oscar theme)
+- Configurable static content and template path
+- Spelling suggestions
+- Multiple engine fixes (duckduckgo, bing, swisscows, yahoo news, bing news, twitter, bing images)
+- Reduced static image size
+- Docker updates
+- Translation updates
+
+
+Special thanks to `NLNet <https://nlnet.nl>`__ for sponsoring multiple features of this release.
+
+
 0.11.0 2017.01.10
 =================
 
diff --git a/searx/version.py b/searx/version.py
index 013689c1..198f9d24 100644
--- a/searx/version.py
+++ b/searx/version.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ along with searx. If not, see < http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >.
 
 # version of searx
 VERSION_MAJOR = 0
-VERSION_MINOR = 11
+VERSION_MINOR = 12
 VERSION_BUILD = 0
 
 VERSION_STRING = "{0}.{1}.{2}".format(VERSION_MAJOR,