diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index d6ee4aa8b..e373190e1 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-## 1.2.2 (in progress)
+## 1.2.3 (in progress)
+
+## 1.2.2 (5 April 2020)
 - Fix for not properly looking up R environment variables in the base environment.
 - Remove --use-new-qual-calculator which was eliminated in GATK 4.1.5.0.
 - Ensure header is not written for a Series. In pandas 0.24.0 the default for header was changed from 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e08c8f668..61e097293 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import setuptools
 
-VERSION = '1.2.1'
+VERSION = '1.2.2'
 
 # add bcbio version number and git commit hash of the current revision to version.py
 try: