diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0450230d8d0c9b32cc4e31591b3f7d599abbf14b..46914a4d1ca72c021af82a4001914664aeefd8be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 Changelog is kept at [GitHub](https://github.com/Dronehub/minijson/releases),
 here's only the changelog for the version in development
 
-# v1.1
+# v1.2
+
 
-* fixed to work under older Pythons (got rid of the f-strings)
-* fixed docstrings to signal that some functions raise exceptions
-* fixed a bug with encoding long lists
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d6264c88b8f532cc42ba6d26a7c4b7ffde925f00..cf5f66dfad957312b1691382a0d4917734fa9af5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 MiniJSON
 ========
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/minijson/badge/?version=latest)](http://minijson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/minijson.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/minijson)
+[![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/minijson.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/minijson)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/implementation/minijson.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/minijson)
 
 MiniJSON is a codec for a compact binary representation of a subset of JSON.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 99617637acdc23e227e76a56a089bea513daae6e..c575d728799b242c337ce23f9301ecf0972e6356 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if 'DEBUG' in os.environ:
     directives['embedsignature'] = True
 
 
-setup(version='1.1',
+setup(version='1.2a1',
       packages=find_packages(include=['minijson', 'minijson.*']),
       ext_modules=build([Multibuild('minijson', find_pyx('minijson'),
                                     dont_snakehouse=dont_snakehouse), ],