diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0fc44e..414a480 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ If you don't have an internal apt server, you can use `dpkg -i` to install the
 One possibility is with the following commands in your Dockerfile:
 
 ```Dockerfile
-RUN wget https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.0/dumb-init_1.2.0_amd64.deb
+RUN wget https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.1/dumb-init_1.2.1_amd64.deb
 RUN dpkg -i dumb-init_*.deb
 ```
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Since dumb-init is released as a statically-linked binary, you can usually just
 plop it into your images. Here's an example of doing that in a Dockerfile:
 
 ```Dockerfile
-RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/dumb-init https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.0/dumb-init_1.2.0_amd64
+RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/dumb-init https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.1/dumb-init_1.2.1_amd64
 RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dumb-init
 ```
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ install a C compiler (on Debian/Ubuntu, `apt-get install gcc` is sufficient),
 then just `pip install dumb-init`.
 
 As of 1.2.0, the package at PyPI is available as a pre-built wheel archive and does not
-need to be compiled on common distributions.
+need to be compiled on common Linux distributions.
 
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 26aaba0..6085e94 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.0
+1.2.1
diff --git a/VERSION.h b/VERSION.h
index 01abdf3..34509c5 100644
--- a/VERSION.h
+++ b/VERSION.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED
 // Run `make VERSION.h` to update it after modifying VERSION.
 unsigned char VERSION[] = {
-  0x31, 0x2e, 0x32, 0x2e, 0x30, 0x0a
+  0x31, 0x2e, 0x32, 0x2e, 0x31, 0x0a
 };
 unsigned int VERSION_len = 6;
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 40c788d..ff5b9c8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+dumb-init (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix verbose debug logging for ignored signals.
+
+    Before this patch, they were reported in the verbose log as "forwarded
+    signal 0 to children" instead of "not forwarding signal to children".
+
+    Since signal 0 is a noop, there is no actual behavior change here.
+
+    Thanks @kpengboy for the patch!
+
+ -- Chris Kuehl <ckuehl@yelp.com>  Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:00:27 -0800
+
 dumb-init (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Hand the controlling TTY to the child process, if we have one (#122).