diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9c8c9a25..4eac8c5c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.12.1] - 2026-10-27
+
+### What's Changed
+
+* fix: preserve `version` in `get`/`head` metadata by @kylebarron in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/807
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/compare/py-v0.12.0...py-v0.12.1
+
 ## [0.12.0] - 2026-10-15
 
 ### What's Changed
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ad14d0f4..8c01f3f3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "obstore"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/obstore/Cargo.toml b/obstore/Cargo.toml
index 4e30c884..e378a124 100644
--- a/obstore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/obstore/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "obstore"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.1"
 authors = { workspace = true }
 edition = { workspace = true }
 description = "The simplest, highest-throughput interface to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and S3-compliant APIs like Cloudflare R2."