diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b5cf81da..893aeb51 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ target
 .DS_Store
 .portal
 default.iprof
+scratch.clj
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d7515fb7..420d6bc8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Upgrade Clojure to `1.12.0`
+- [#1720](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1720): Include `clojure.java.process`
 -  [#1598](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1598): use Rosetta on CircleCI to build x64 images
 - Bump SCI
 - Bump `fs`
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/clojure/java/process.clj b/src/babashka/impl/clojure/java/process.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f479affc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/clojure/java/process.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.clojure.java.process
+  (:require [clojure.java.process]
+            [sci.core :as sci]))
+
+(def cjp (sci/create-ns 'clojure.java.process nil))
+(def cjp-namespace (sci/copy-ns clojure.java.process cjp))
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 1a90c663..1b15e139 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.clojure.tools.reader-types :refer [edn-namespace
                                                      reader-types-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.clojure.zip :refer [zip-namespace]]
+   [babashka.impl.clojure.java.process :refer [cjp-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.common :as common]
    [babashka.impl.core :as bbcore]
    [babashka.impl.curl :refer [curl-namespace]]
@@ -389,6 +390,7 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
                    'main main-var}
     'clojure.test t/clojure-test-namespace
     'clojure.math math-namespace
+    'clojure.java.process cjp-namespace
     'babashka.classpath classpath-namespace
     'babashka.classes classes-namespace
     'clojure.pprint pprint-namespace