diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 2d713ab01..122691eca 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-## 1.2.1 (in progress)
+## 1.2.2 (in progress)
+
+## 1.2.1 (25 March 2020)
 - Update ChIP and ATAC bowtie2 runs to use `--very-sensitive`.
 - Properly pad TSS BED file for ataqv TSS enrichment metrics.
 - Skip bcbioRNASeq if there are less than three samples.
 - Run joint-calling with single cores to save resources.
 - Re-support PureCN.
 - Skip segments with no informative SNPs when creating the LOH VCF file from PureCN output.
+- Fix for duplicated output for mosdepth in quality control report.
+- Fix for missing rRNA statistics.
 
 ## 1.2.0 (7 February 2020)
 - Fix for bismark not being a supported aligner.
diff --git a/requirements-conda.txt b/requirements-conda.txt
index 57e7e51e5..4204abba4 100644
--- a/requirements-conda.txt
+++ b/requirements-conda.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bcbio-nextgen=1.2.0
+bcbio-nextgen=1.2.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a2cf0a38c..21f186e40 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bcbio-nextgen==1.2.0
+bcbio-nextgen==1.2.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3517c9588..e08c8f668 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import setuptools
 
-VERSION = '1.2.0'
+VERSION = '1.2.1'
 
 # add bcbio version number and git commit hash of the current revision to version.py
 try: