diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 237ea95047d26e6356cceba932fc521aad0a0580..25be7c891e84ef25bc9412a0c354b92f3b978926 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ LIBRARY_NAME := $(PROJECT)
 LIB_BUILD_DIR := $(BUILD_DIR)/lib
 STATIC_NAME := $(LIB_BUILD_DIR)/lib$(LIBRARY_NAME).a
 DYNAMIC_VERSION_MAJOR 		:= 1
-DYNAMIC_VERSION_MINOR 		:= 1
+DYNAMIC_VERSION_MINOR 		:= 2
 DYNAMIC_VERSION_REVISION 	:= 0
 DYNAMIC_NAME_SHORT := lib$(LIBRARY_NAME).so
 #DYNAMIC_SONAME_SHORT := $(DYNAMIC_NAME_SHORT).$(DYNAMIC_VERSION_MAJOR)
diff --git a/doc/release_notes.md b/doc/release_notes.md
index 5c3d21af7457cc6fdfaba2d32f3d3eee0dea8101..6fb244bf4a85d377d3308ae69d37d27c1be81e22 100644
--- a/doc/release_notes.md
+++ b/doc/release_notes.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.0rc1
+## OpenPose 1.0.0rc1 (Apr 24, 2017)
 1. Initial version, main functionality:
     1. Body keypoint detection and rendering in Ubuntu 14 and 16.
     2. It can read an image directory, video or webcam.
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.0rc2
+## OpenPose 1.0.0rc2 (May 10, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Rendering max resolution from 720p to >32k images.
     2. Highly improved documentation.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.0rc3
+## OpenPose 1.0.0rc3 (Jun 8, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Added face keypoint detection.
     2. Added Windows 10 compatibility.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.0
+## OpenPose 1.0.0 (Jul 8, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Added hand keypoint detection.
     2. Windows branch merged to master branch.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.1
+## OpenPose 1.0.1 (Jul 11, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Windows library turned into DLL dynamic library (i.e. portable).
     2. Improved documentation.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.0.2
+## OpenPose 1.0.2 (Sep 3, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Added OpenCV 3.3 compatibility.
     2. Caffe turned into DLL library.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## OpenPose 1.1.0
+## OpenPose 1.1.0 (Sep 19, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Added CMake installer for Ubuntu.
     2. Added how to use keypoint data in `examples/tutorial_wrapper/`.
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
 
 
 
-## Current version (future OpenPose 1.2.0)
+## OpenPose 1.2.0 (Nov 3, 2017)
 1. Main improvements:
     1. Speed increase when processing images with different aspect ratios. E.g. ~20% increase over 3.7k COCO validation images on 1 scale.
     2. Huge speed increase and memory reduction when processing multi-scale. E.g. over 3.7k COCO validation images on 4 scales: ~40% (~770 to ~450 sec) speed increase, ~25% memory reduction (from ~8.9 to ~6.7 GB / GPU).
@@ -148,3 +148,7 @@ OpenPose Library - Release Notes
     1. Scaling resize issue fixed: ~1-pixel offset due to not considering 0-based indexes.
     2. Ubuntu installer script now works even if Python pip was not installed previously.
     3. Flags to set first and last frame as well as jumping frames backward and forward now works on image directory reader.
+
+
+
+## Current version (future OpenPose 1.2.1)
diff --git a/src/openpose/gui/gui.cpp b/src/openpose/gui/gui.cpp
index 56c8d5024f3c5a65fea8fa43b4d3d50162a326fe..7e426be50fedc09e2decfdf6bb61674ad072df54 100644
--- a/src/openpose/gui/gui.cpp
+++ b/src/openpose/gui/gui.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 namespace op
 {
-    const std::string OPEN_POSE_TEXT{"OpenPose 1.1.0"};
+    const std::string OPEN_POSE_TEXT{"OpenPose 1.2.0"};
 
     inline void showGuiHelp()
     {
diff --git a/windows/OpenPose/OpenPose.vcxproj b/windows/OpenPose/OpenPose.vcxproj
index 80bd6e86505961ce95e0df512c412d29749ed07d..7ac7d07e365b9cde3e0d247df18593d8cadb7f0e 100644
--- a/windows/OpenPose/OpenPose.vcxproj
+++ b/windows/OpenPose/OpenPose.vcxproj
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
     </CudaCompile>
     <Link>
       <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(CUDA_PATH_V8_0)\lib\x64\;$(PYTHON_LIB);$(CudaToolkitLibDir);%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories);%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories);</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
-      <Version>1.1.0</Version>
+      <Version>1.2.0</Version>
     </Link>
   </ItemDefinitionGroup>
   <ItemDefinitionGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|x64'">