diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 05440735bc56..5bfb89711c06 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 - [Scheduled](#scheduled)
 - [Released](#released)
+    - [0.13.0rc2](#0130rc2)
+    - [0.12.3](#0123---20180312)
     - [0.13.0rc1](#0130rc1)
     - [0.12.2](#0122---20180228)
     - [0.12.1](#0121---20180118)
@@ -28,6 +30,30 @@ a detailed changeset of their content.
 This section describes publicly available releases and a detailed changeset of
 their content.
 
+## [0.13.0rc2]
+
+- **rc2 release date**: March 12th 2018
+- **Stable release date (target)**: March 14th 2018
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Suppress a memory leak in the core introduced in 0.12.2 and included in
+  0.13.0rc2.
+  Thanks [@mengskysama](https://github.com/mengskysama) for the report.
+  [#3278](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/3278)
+
+[Back to TOC](#table-of-contents)
+
+## [0.12.3] - 2018/03/12
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Suppress a memory leak in the core introduced in 0.12.2.
+  Thanks [@mengskysama](https://github.com/mengskysama) for the report.
+  [#3278](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/3278)
+
+[Back to TOC](#table-of-contents)
+
 ## [0.13.0rc1]
 
 - **rc1 release date**: February 28th 2018
@@ -2364,7 +2390,9 @@ First version running with Cassandra.
 
 [Back to TOC](#table-of-contents)
 
+[0.13.0rc2]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.13.0rc1...0.13.0rc2
 [0.13.0rc1]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.12.2...0.13.0rc1
+[0.12.3]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.12.2...0.12.3
 [0.12.2]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.12.1...0.12.2
 [0.12.1]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.12.0...0.12.1
 [0.12.0]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/0.11.2...0.12.0
diff --git a/kong-0.12.2-0.rockspec b/kong-0.12.3-0.rockspec
similarity index 99%
rename from kong-0.12.2-0.rockspec
rename to kong-0.12.3-0.rockspec
index 7ec11f8145e1..4fa965ff76fe 100644
--- a/kong-0.12.2-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-0.12.3-0.rockspec
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 package = "kong"
-version = "0.12.2-0"
+version = "0.12.3-0"
 supported_platforms = {"linux", "macosx"}
 source = {
   url = "git://github.com/Kong/kong",
-  tag = "0.12.2"
+  tag = "0.12.3"
 }
 description = {
   summary = "Kong is a scalable and customizable API Management Layer built on top of Nginx.",
diff --git a/kong/meta.lua b/kong/meta.lua
index 4cb326fd9580..ca9bfbe2e427 100644
--- a/kong/meta.lua
+++ b/kong/meta.lua
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 local version = setmetatable({
   major = 0,
   minor = 12,
-  patch = 2,
+  patch = 3,
   --suffix = ""
 }, {
   __tostring = function(t)