diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dd8876f..3843ede 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Release 1.2.0 (June 29th 2021)
+* Dependency Updates:
+  * AWS SDK v1 from `1.11.844` to `1.12.7` ([pull request](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/pull/38))
+  * AWS SDK v2 from `2.13.52` to `2.16.86` ([pull request](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/pull/38))
+  * AWS DynamoDB Streams Kinesis Adapater from `1.5.0` to `1.5.3` ([pull request](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/pull/38)) 
+  * Guava from `18` to `29.0-jre` ([pull request](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/pull/36))
+  * Jackson from `2.10.1` to `2.12.1` ([pull request](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/pull/38))
+  
 ## Release 1.1.2 (May 27th, 2021)
 * Backport Fix issue where KinesisDataFetcher.shutdownFetcher() hangs.
   ([issue](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connector-flink/issues/23), 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 70d529e..099f0e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Add the following dependency to your project to start using the connector.
 <dependency>
     <groupId>software.amazon.kinesis</groupId>
     <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-connector-flink</artifactId>
-    <version>1.1.2</version>
+    <version>1.2.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```