diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 399f057e5c8..3ca8ef61623 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Ana Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
 Anatoliy Rozanov <anatoliy.rozanov@intel.com>
 Andrew Friedley <andrew.friedley@intel.com>
 Andrey Lobanov <andrey.lobanov@intel.com>
+Anthony Zinger <anthony.zinger@hpe.com>
 Ao Li <aolia@amazon.com>
 Arun C Ilango <arun.ilango@intel.com>
 arun ilango <a-ilango@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ Hui Zhou <hzhou321@anl.gov>
 Ian Ziemba <ian.ziemba@hpe.com>
 Ignacio Hernandez <ignacio.hernandez@intel.com>
 Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
+iziemba <57813515+iziemba@users.noreply.github.com>
 Jaime Arteaga <jaime.a.arteaga.molina@intel.com>
 James Dinan <james.dinan@intel.com>
 James Shimek <jshimek@cray.com>
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
 Jerome Berryhill <Jerome.Berryhill@Intel.com>
 Jerome Boyd Berryhill <JeromeBerryhill@Intel.com>
 Jerome Soumagne <jsoumagne@hdfgroup.org>
+Jiakun Yan <jiakunyan1998@gmail.com>
 Jianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
 Jie Zhang <zhngaj@amazon.com>
 Jim Snow <jim.m.snow@intel.com>
@@ -118,6 +121,8 @@ Oblomov, Sergey <hoopoepg@gmail.com>
 Oblomov, Sergey <sergey.oblomov@intel.com>
 OFIWG Bot <ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org>
 Paolo Inaudi <p91paul@gmail.com>
+patrickbueb <70724661+patrickbueb@users.noreply.github.com>
+Patrick Bueb <patrick.bueb@hpe.com>
 Patrick MacArthur <pmacarth@iol.unh.edu>
 Patrick McCormick <patrick.m.mccormick@intel.com>
 Paul Coffman <pcoffman@anl.gov>
@@ -156,8 +161,10 @@ Thibault BREZILLON <thibault.brezillon@techsat.com>
 Thomas Smith <thomasm2@cisco.com>
 Tony Zinger <ajz@cray.com>
 tonyzinger <ajz@cray.com>
+Trevor Hendricks <trevorhe@amazon.com>
 Venkata Krishna Nimmagadda <nvkrishna85@gmail.com>
 Venkata Krishna Nimmagadda <venkata.krishna.nimmagadda@intel.com>
+Wei Zhang <wzam@amazonc.com>
 Wei Zhang <wzam@amazon.com>
 Wesley Bland <wesley.bland@intel.com>
 William Zhang <wilzhang@amazon.com>
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 31bc30a75ee..a786c78ba28 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the the
 BSD license or the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version
 2, both included below.
 
-Copyright (c) 2015-2019 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2015-2021 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2015-2019 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 
 ==================================================================
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 27d4efa4f36..c08b6606998 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,6 +5,69 @@ This file contains the main features as well as overviews of specific
 bug fixes (and other actions) for each version of Libfabric since
 version 1.0.
 
+v1.12.0, Wed Mar 10, 2021
+=========================
+
+## Core
+
+## EFA
+
+## RxM
+
+## SHM
+
+## Sockets
+
+## TCP
+
+## Util
+
+## Verbs
+
+
+v1.11.2, Tue Dec 15, 2020
+=========================
+
+## Core
+
+- Handle data transfers > 4GB on OS X over tcp sockets
+- Fixed spelling and syntax in man pages
+- Fix pmem instruction checks
+
+## EFA
+
+- Use memory registration for emulated read protocol
+- Update send paths to use app memory descriptor if available
+- Remove unneeded check for local memory registration
+- Do not install fork handler if EFA is not used
+- Fix medium message RTM protocol
+- Fix memory registration leak in error path
+- Fix posting of REQ packets when using shm provider
+
+## RxM
+
+- Fix provider initialization when built as a dynamic library
+
+## SHM
+
+- Reverts SAR buffer locking patch
+- Include correct header file for process_vm_readv/writev syscalls
+- Skip atomic fetch processing for non-fetch operations
+
+## TCP
+
+- Fix swapping of address and CQ data in RMA inject path
+
+## Util
+
+- Fix error code returned for invalid AV flags
+- Fix a bug finding the end of a page when the address is aligned
+
+## Verbs
+
+- Fix build warning in XRC CM log messages
+- Fix build warnings in debug macros
+
 v1.11.1, Fri Oct 9, 2021
 ========================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8cf9634a292..47575327187 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.12.0a1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.12.0rc1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/fabric.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
diff --git a/fabtests/configure.ac b/fabtests/configure.ac
index cf33a814c3c..0e21a4c433e 100644
--- a/fabtests/configure.ac
+++ b/fabtests/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.11.0], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.12.0rc1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
diff --git a/include/windows/config.h b/include/windows/config.h
index 1643005aca6..def94e2396c 100644
--- a/include/windows/config.h
+++ b/include/windows/config.h
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
 #define PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE
 
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.12.0a1"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.12.0rc1"
 
 /* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_NAME " " PACKAGE_VERSION
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
 /* Version number of package */
 #define _FI_EXP(s) #s
 #define _FI_TO_STRING(s) _FI_EXP(s)
-#define VERSION _FI_TO_STRING(FI_MAJOR_VERSION) "." _FI_TO_STRING(FI_MINOR_VERSION) ".1a1"
+#define VERSION _FI_TO_STRING(FI_MAJOR_VERSION) "." _FI_TO_STRING(FI_MINOR_VERSION) "." _FI_TO_STRING(FI_REVISION_VERSION)
 
 #ifndef BUILD_ID
 #define BUILD_ID ""