diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bd1544fd..46510bf9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+v1.2.2 2019-08-29 The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+	- Fix a use after free issue when receiving IRCv3 CAP
+          information from the server (GL#34)
+	- Fix a crash during startup when windows weren't fully
+          initialised yet (#1114, bdo#935813)
+
 v1.2.1 2019-06-29 The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	! Contains all changes from 1.1.3
 	- Fix a test on big endian machines (#1014)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5f4a9951..f154e4ce 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(irssi, 1.2.1)
+AC_INIT(irssi, 1.2.2)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)