diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e1d39d7e..1853a9a2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
+## Release 1.12.0 (October 17, 2019)
+[Milestone#41](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/milestone/41)
+* Adding logging around shard end codepaths.
+  * [PR #585](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/585)
+* Updating checkpointing failure message to refer to javadocs.
+  * [PR #590](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/590)
+* Updating Sonatype to dedicated AWS endpoint.
+  * [PR #618](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/618)
+* Introducing a validation step to verify if ShardEnd is reached, to prevent shard consumer stuck scenarios in the event of malformed response from service.
+  * [PR #623](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/623)
+* Updating AWS SDK to 1.11.655
+  * [PR #626](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/626)
+
 ## Release 1.11.2 (August 15, 2019)
 [Milestone#35](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/milestone/35)
 * Added support for metrics emission in `PeriodicShardSyncer`.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e43d02bb..11ef45fd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,20 @@ To make it easier for developers to write record processors in other languages,
 
 ## Release Notes
 
-## Latest Release (1.11.2 - August 15, 2019)
+## Latest Release (1.12.0 October 17, 2019)
+[Milestone#41](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/milestone/41)
+* Adding logging around shard end codepaths
+  * [PR #585](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/585)
+* Updating checkpointing failure message to refer to javadocs
+  * [PR #590](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/590)
+* Updating Sonatype to dedicated AWS endpoint.
+  * [PR #618](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/618)
+* Introducing a validation step to verify if ShardEnd is reached, to prevent shard consumer stuck scenarios in the event of malformed response from service.
+  * [PR #623](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/623)
+* Updating AWS SDK to 1.11.655
+  * [PR #626](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/626)
+
+## Release 1.11.2 (August 15, 2019)
 [Milestone#35](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/milestone/35)
 * Added support for metrics emission in `PeriodicShardSyncer`.
   * [PR #592](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/592)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7347172c..078d8d33 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java</name>
-  <version>1.11.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.12.0</version>
   <description>The Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java enables Java developers to easily consume and process data
     from Amazon Kinesis.
   </description>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
index 5effe6ee..b4d4fcc7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ public class KinesisClientLibConfiguration {
     /**
      * User agent set when Amazon Kinesis Client Library makes AWS requests.
      */
-    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT = "amazon-kinesis-client-library-java-1.11.3-SNAPSHOT";
+    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT = "amazon-kinesis-client-library-java-1.12.0";
 
     /**
      * KCL will validate client provided sequence numbers with a call to Amazon Kinesis before checkpointing for calls