diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b6aaedeec..537dc4229c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Versioned according to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [2.12.7] - 2020-07-31
+
 Changed:
 
   `ocrd process` also supports `-P`, #552
@@ -1062,6 +1064,7 @@ Fixed
 Initial Release
 
 <!-- link-labels -->
+[2.12.7]: ../../compare/v2.12.7..v2.12.6
 [2.12.6]: ../../compare/v2.12.6..v2.12.5
 [2.12.5]: ../../compare/v2.12.5..v2.12.4
 [2.12.4]: ../../compare/v2.12.4..v2.12.3
diff --git a/ocrd_utils/setup.py b/ocrd_utils/setup.py
index 13d8461273..4f83400897 100644
--- a/ocrd_utils/setup.py
+++ b/ocrd_utils/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='ocrd_utils',
-    version='2.12.6',
+    version='2.12.7',
     description='OCR-D framework - shared code, helpers, constants',
     long_description=open('README.md').read(),
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',