diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
index d787e29dc3..5b58ef7bd3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
@@ -25,23 +25,27 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-    - name: Conda Install test dependencies 
+    - name: Conda Install test dependencies
       if: matrix.use-conda == true
       run: |
         # Miniconda is available in $CONDA env var
         $CONDA/bin/conda create -n testenv --yes pip wheel gxx_linux-64 gcc_linux-64 swig python=${{ matrix.python-version }}
         $CONDA/envs/testenv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
         $CONDA/envs/testenv/bin/pip3 install -e .[test]
-    - name: Install test dependencies 
+    - name: Install test dependencies
       if: matrix.use-conda == false && matrix.use-dist == false
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        if [[ `python -c 'import platform; print(platform.python_version())' | cut -d '.' -f 2` -eq 6 ]]; then
+          # Numpy 1.20 dropped suppert for Python3.6
+          pip install "numpy<=1.19"
+        fi
         pip install -e .[test]
         sudo apt-get update
         sudo apt-get remove swig
         sudo apt-get install swig3.0
         sudo ln -s /usr/bin/swig3.0 /usr/bin/swig
-    - name: Dist Install test dependencies 
+    - name: Dist Install test dependencies
       if: matrix.use-conda == false && matrix.use-dist == true
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
diff --git a/autosklearn/__init__.py b/autosklearn/__init__.py
index 394eae607f..dba96978a7 100644
--- a/autosklearn/__init__.py
+++ b/autosklearn/__init__.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
         sys.platform
     )
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 5):
+if sys.version_info < (3, 6):
     raise ValueError(
         'Unsupported python version %s found. Auto-sklearn requires Python '
-        '3.5 or higher.' % sys.version_info
+        '3.6 or higher.' % sys.version_info
     )
diff --git a/autosklearn/__version__.py b/autosklearn/__version__.py
index 7fd2e63a53..6faf4858e2 100644
--- a/autosklearn/__version__.py
+++ b/autosklearn/__version__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 """Version information."""
 
 # The following line *must* be the last in the module, exactly as formatted:
-__version__ = "0.11.1"
+__version__ = "0.12.0"
diff --git a/doc/releases.rst b/doc/releases.rst
index abc338e51a..49b1f6c8ee 100644
--- a/doc/releases.rst
+++ b/doc/releases.rst
@@ -7,10 +7,33 @@
     commit. From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6482436/list-of-authors-in-git-since-a-given-commit
     git log 2e29eba.. --format="%aN <%aE>" --reverse | perl -e 'my %dedupe; while (<STDIN>) { print unless $dedupe{$_}++}'
 
+
 ========
 Releases
 ========
 
+Version 0.12.0
+==============
+
+* BREAKING: Auto-sklearn must now be guarded by ``__name__ == "__main__"`` due to the use of the
+  ``spawn`` multiprocessing context.
+* ADD #1026: Adds improved meta-data for Auto-sklearn 2.0 which results in strong improved
+  performance.
+* MAINT #984 and #1008: Move to scikit-learn 0.23.X
+* MAINT #1004: Move from travis-ci to github actions.
+* MAINT 8b67af6: drop the requirement to the lockfile package.
+* FIX #990: Fixes a bug that made Auto-sklearn fail if there are missing values in a pandas
+  DataFrame.
+* FIX #1007, #1012 and #1014: Log multiprocessing output via a new log server. Remove several
+  potential deadlocks related to the joint use of multi-processing, multi-threading and logging.
+
+Contributors v0.12.0
+********************
+
+* Matthias Feurer
+* ROHIT AGARWAL
+* Francisco Rivera
+
 Version 0.11.1
 ==============
 
@@ -19,6 +42,11 @@ Version 0.11.1
 * FIX #1001: Fixes a bug which could make Auto-sklearn fail at random.
 * MAINT #1000: Introduce a minimal version for ``dask.distributed``.
 
+Contributors v0.11.1
+********************
+
+* Matthias Feurer
+
 Version 0.11.0
 ==============