diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
 
+## 1.2.0 - 2023-10-18
+
+
+### Features
+
+- added two new synonym generation routines, VerbPhraseVariantGenerator and TokenListReplacementGenerator
+- synonym generators now cache results, and are thus much faster
+
+
 ## 1.1.2 - 2023-10-11
 
 
diff --git a/docs/_changelog.d/+newsyngeneration.feature.rst b/docs/_changelog.d/+newsyngeneration.feature.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-added two new synonym generation routines, VerbPhraseVariantGenerator and TokenListReplacementGenerator
diff --git a/docs/_changelog.d/+syngenerationcache.feature.rst b/docs/_changelog.d/+syngenerationcache.feature.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-synonym generators now cache results, and are thus much faster
diff --git a/kazu/__init__.py b/kazu/__init__.py
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--- a/kazu/__init__.py
+++ b/kazu/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.1.2"
+__version__ = "1.2.0"