diff --git a/README b/README
index 6ebca65..bf840a5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
                               Fontconfig
              Font configuration and customization library
-                             Version 2.12
-                              2016-06-15
+                            Version 2.12.1
+                              2016-08-05
 
 
 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
 
+2.12.1
+
+Akira TAGOH (6):
+      Add --with-default-hinting to configure
+      Update CaseFolding.txt to Unicode 9.0
+      Check python installed in autogen.sh
+      Fix some errors related to python3
+      Bug 96676 - Check range of FcWeightFromOpenType argument
+      Update libtool revision
+
+Tobias Stoeckmann (1):
+      Properly validate offsets in cache files.
+
 2.12
 
 Akira TAGOH (8):
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a048ba6..4948816 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 dnl version.  This same version number must appear in fontconfig/fontconfig.h
 dnl Yes, it is a pain to synchronize version numbers.  Unfortunately, it's
 dnl not possible to extract the version number here from fontconfig.h
-AC_INIT([fontconfig], [2.12.0], [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=fontconfig])
+AC_INIT([fontconfig], [2.12.1], [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=fontconfig])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 parallel-tests dist-bzip2])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 
diff --git a/fontconfig/fontconfig.h b/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
index e760402..5c72b22 100644
--- a/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
+++ b/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 #define FC_MAJOR	2
 #define FC_MINOR	12
-#define FC_REVISION	0
+#define FC_REVISION	1
 
 #define FC_VERSION	((FC_MAJOR * 10000) + (FC_MINOR * 100) + (FC_REVISION))