diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f65405f9c605212a51ade0f106138fbd93b7dc95..eae249e477310fa7f0a30980d3d605010429e4b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# 0.12.4 - 2022-04-30
+
+- Fix possible errors/crashes when processing multiple files
+  via the command line interface
+- Use a fixed PDF version for the output
+- Improve compatibility with modern versions of rsvg
+- Improve the robustness of the command line interface with
+  regard to control characters
+
 # 0.12.3 - 2022-01-06
 
 - Implement code for internationalization
diff --git a/doc/mat2.1 b/doc/mat2.1
index fb7374a77a4dca337ba8fa17b175a049918a0fbd..2cd90e8796e48857a7dca1d74bfc4431e32d2260 100644
--- a/doc/mat2.1
+++ b/doc/mat2.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH mat2 "1" "January 2022" "mat2 0.12.3" "User Commands"
+.TH mat2 "1" "April 2022" "mat2 0.12.4" "User Commands"
 
 .SH NAME
 mat2 \- the metadata anonymisation toolkit 2
diff --git a/mat2 b/mat2
index 912e036d06cf736514cf084ad40b3b7cabbde73a..21be91243f16655635a3b670e26f220096fe3310 100755
--- a/mat2
+++ b/mat2
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ except ValueError as ex:
     print(ex)
     sys.exit(1)
 
-__version__ = '0.12.3'
+__version__ = '0.12.4'
 
 # Make pyflakes happy
 assert Set
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dbcafdcffe3af45ff70162ecda918bdd4da91083..273a84e7440f1aa3e8981bbd96ab2063834d5880 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with open("README.md", encoding='utf-8') as fh:
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="mat2",
-    version='0.12.3',
+    version='0.12.4',
     author="Julien (jvoisin) Voisin",
     author_email="julien.voisin+mat2@dustri.org",
     description="A handy tool to trash your metadata",