diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index db383d27344..69870046758 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 ## Current develop
 
+### Added (new features/APIs/variables/...)
+
+### Fixed (Repair bugs, etc)
+
+### Changed (changing behavior/API/variables/...)
+
+### Infrastructure (changes irrelevant to downstream codes)
+
+### Deprecated (soon to be removed behavior/API/variables/...)
+
+## Release 1.12.0
+Date: 07/20/2026
+
 ### Added (new features/APIs/variables/...)
 - [[PR643]](https://github.com/lanl/singularity-eos/pull/643) Fixed `find_package(singularity-eos)` failures when built without closure variant. The CMake config now automatically detects which components were built and only requires those that exist, enabling header-only usage without the compiled library.
 - [[PR632]](https://github.com/lanl/singularity-eos/pull/632) Added generic constructors to SpinerEOSDependsRhoSie and SpinerEOSDependsRhoT that build tables from any EOS object.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 98d39881118..2fd375db283 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ endif()
 # declare the project name
 project(
   singularity-eos
-  VERSION 1.11.1
+  VERSION 1.12.0
   LANGUAGES NONE)
 
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")