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 # Changelog
 
-## Changes in version 1.2 (unreleased)
+## Changes in version 1.2 (Sun, 07 Feb 2016)
 
 This a mostly a cleanup release after many years of no updates,
 integrating pending fixes and distribution patches from Debian and
 RedHat, and a change of maintainership:
 
-- many updates to density codes (SDLT, LTO 5,6 and 7, etc.) (various people)
+- many updates to density codes (SDLT, LTO 5,6 and 7, etc.) (various
+  people)
 - multiple man page updates (various people)
 - improve default tape device handling in `mt`: check that it actually
   is a character device, in order to show better error messages when
   `/dev/tape` is a different type (e.g. directory when using `udev`)
 - small bug fix in stinit in parsing the input file (David Binderman)
 - improve build system by allowing easier customisation of build flags
-  and installation directory (via `DESTDIR`, not prefix) (Iustin Pop)
+  and installation directory (via `DESTDIR`, not prefix) and by
+  sanitising the creation of the dist archive (Iustin Pop)
 - sanitise the source code to get rid of GCC warnings (Jan Christoph
   Nordholz, Iustin Pop)
 - add `stshowoptions` alias to `stshowopt` (Ivo De Decker)