diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 9c74e22ef..178b0381e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-## 1.2.8 (in progress)
+## 1.2.9 (in progress)
+
+
+## 1.2.8 (14 April 2021)
 - Set ENCODE library complexity flags properly for ChIP-seq. Thanks to @mistrm82.
 - Fix greylisted peaks not being propagated to the output directory. Thanks to @mistrm82.
 - Better error message when no sample barcodes are found for single-cell RNA-seq.
@@ -11,6 +14,14 @@
 - Enable consensus peak calling for broad peaks. Thanks to @mistrm82 and
   @yoonsquared for pointing out this was missing. 
 - Re-enable ATAC-seq tests, they work now.
+- svprioritize for mm10
+- purecn_Dx.R - mutational signatures - still requires a manual update of deconstructsigs or release of it
+- make sure purecn uses sv_regions bed to call variants
+- fix misleading disambiguation fastqc read statistics (total, hg38, mm10)
+- wgbs: nebemseq kit: add --maxins 1000 and --local to bismark align
+- WGBS: sorted indexed deduplicated bam for ready.bam
+- print error message when aligner: false and hla typing is on
+- make sure that mark_duplicates is false with collapsed UMI input
 
 ## 1.2.7 (22 February 2021)
 - RNASeq: Add gene body coverage plots to multiqc report.
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
index a88cce992..b0f83c70f 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2013 bcbio-nextgen contributors
+Copyright (c) 2013-2021 bcbio-nextgen contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index f6c9bd08a..09c4cde74 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
 project = 'bcbio-nextgen'
-copyright = '2020, bcbio-nextgen contributors'
+copyright = '2021, bcbio-nextgen contributors'
 author = 'bcbio-nextgen contributors'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-version = release = '1.2.4'
+version = release = '1.2.8'
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9f2a91dad..2c7638af2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import setuptools
 
-VERSION = '1.2.7'
+VERSION = '1.2.8'
 
 # add bcbio version number and git commit hash of the current revision to version.py
 try: