diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE.md
similarity index 94%
rename from LICENSE
rename to LICENSE.md
index d32f01f..fffa601 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) <2007-2021> <Barbara Philippot - Olivier Courtin>
+Copyright (c) <2007-2024> <Barbara Philippot - Olivier Courtin>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS.md
similarity index 90%
rename from NEWS
rename to NEWS.md
index 438fb1a..397d4c5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.2.1   (2024-05-17) *in memory of Olivier Courtin*
+ - Fix JSON encoding ([#100](https://github.com/MapServer/tinyows/pull/100)) (Kévin Dubuc)
+ - Use stdbool.h instead of custom definitions ([#99](https://github.com/MapServer/tinyows/pull/99)) (Bas Couwenberg)
+ - Handle check when using TINYOWS_MAPFILE ([#97](https://github.com/MapServer/tinyows/pull/97)) (Jeff McKenna)
+ 
 1.2.0   (2021-06-11) *in memory of Olivier Courtin*
  - Fix custom types conversion (Vincent Mora)
  - Add support for geometry-less tables (Even Rouault)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 26aaba0..0000000
--- a/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1.2.0
diff --git a/VERSION.md b/VERSION.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6085e94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1.2.1
diff --git a/doc/Doxyfile b/doc/Doxyfile
index 5cebf81..04c607a 100644
--- a/doc/Doxyfile
+++ b/doc/Doxyfile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = tinyows
 # This could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or 
 # if some version control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = 1.2.0
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = 1.2.1
 
 # The OUTPUT_DIRECTORY tag is used to specify the (relative or absolute) 
 # base path where the generated documentation will be put. 
diff --git a/src/ows_define.h.in b/src/ows_define.h.in
index d3ff65d..30da8ba 100644
--- a/src/ows_define.h.in
+++ b/src/ows_define.h.in
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #define OWS_DEBUG
 #endif
 
-#define TINYOWS_VERSION             "1.2.0"
+#define TINYOWS_VERSION             "1.2.1"
 #define TINYOWS_FCGI                @USE_FCGI@
 
 #define OWS_CONFIG_FILE_PATH        "/etc/tinyows.xml"