diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 4f349b61f..320e5475b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
-## 1.2.9 (in progress)
-- Fixed vcf header bug: T/N SAMPLE lines are back - needed for import to SolveBio
+## 1.3.0 (in progress ~ Q2 2022)
+
+
+## 1.2.9 (14 December 2021)
+- Fix vcf header bug: T/N SAMPLE lines are back - needed for import to SolveBio
 - add strandedness: auto for -l A option in salmon
 - report 10x more peaks in CHIP/ATAC-seq - use 0.05 qvalue
-- fixed misleading RNA-seq duplicated reads statistics: thanks @sib-bcf 
+- fix misleading RNA-seq duplicated reads statistics: thanks @sib-bcf 
 - reorganize conda environments
 - snpEff 5.0
 - strandedness: auto
+- document WGBS pipeline steps
+- make --local an option, not default in bismark alignment - too slow
+- bcbioRNASeq update to 0.3.44
+- pureCN update to 2.0.1
+- octopus update to 0.7.4
 
 ## 1.2.8 (14 April 2021)
 - Set ENCODE library complexity flags properly for ChIP-seq. Thanks to @mistrm82.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 6c73f9e82..72dd75d6a 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 author = 'bcbio-nextgen contributors'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-version = release = '1.2.8'
+version = release = '1.2.9'
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c8919441d..f34255a98 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import setuptools
 
-VERSION = '1.2.9a'
+VERSION = '1.2.9'
 
 # add bcbio version number and git commit hash of the current revision to version.py
 try: