diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 162e722..dc5c8d5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ issue-generator NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
 Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Thorsten Kukuk et al.
 
+Version 1.12
+* Improve RPM database consistency check: Use rpm command directly to
+  prevent blocking when there is no zypper database yet or when the
+  admin intentionally broke dependencies
+* Implement missing stop argument for RPM database consistency plugin
+* Fixes typo in GRUB plugin so that the detection always used the
+  fallback file
+* Drop crio, etcd and kubelet plugins because the corresponding products
+  are EOL
+
 Version 1.11
 * Add RPM database consistency plugin
 * Messages are printed with a severity prefix now
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index da16b8c..c76da10 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(health-checker, 1.11)
+AC_INIT(health-checker, 1.12)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr)