diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9d172a2468..005523be3d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,14 +2,16 @@
 
 ## master / unreleased
 
+## 1.12.0 in pgoress
+
 * [CHANGE] Changed default for `-ingester.min-ready-duration` from 1 minute to 15 seconds. #4539
-* [CHANGE] query-frontend: Do not print anything in the logs of `query-frontend` if a in-progress query has been canceled (context canceled). #4562
+* [CHANGE] query-frontend: Do not print anything in the logs of `query-frontend` if a in-progress query has been canceled (context canceled) to avoid spam. #4562
 * [CHANGE] Compactor block deletion mark migration, needed when upgrading from v1.7, is now disabled by default. #4597
 * [CHANGE] The `status_code` label on gRPC client metrics has changed from '200' and '500' to '2xx', '5xx', '4xx', 'cancel' or 'error'. 4601
 * [CHANGE] Memberlist: changed probe interval from `1s` to `5s` and probe timeout from `500ms` to `2s`. #4601
 * [FEATURE] Add shuffle sharding grouper and planner within compactor to allow further work towards parallelizing compaction #4624
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Update Go version to 1.17.5. #4602 #4604
-* [ENHANCEMENT] Keep track of discarded samples due to relabel configuration in `cortex_discarded_samples_total`. #4503
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Keep track of discarded samples due to bad relabel configuration in `cortex_discarded_samples_total`. #4503
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Ruler: Add `-ruler.disable-rule-group-label` to disable the `rule_group` label on exported metrics. #4571
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Query federation: improve performance in MergeQueryable by memoizing labels. #4502
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Added new ring related config `-ingester.readiness-check-ring-health` when enabled the readiness probe will succeed only after all instances are ACTIVE and healthy in the ring, this is enabled by default. #4539
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Optimise memberlist receive path when used as a backing store for rings with a large number of members. #4601
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add length and limit to labelNameTooLongError and labelValueTooLongError #4595
 * [BUGFIX] AlertManager: remove stale template files. #4495
-* [BUGFIX] Distributor: fix bug in query-exemplar where some results would get dropped. #4582
+* [BUGFIX] Distributor: fix bug in query-exemplar where some results would get dropped. #4583
 * [BUGFIX] Update Thanos dependency: compactor tracing support, azure blocks storage memory fix. #4585
 * [BUGFIX] Set appropriate `Content-Type` header for /services endpoint, which previously hard-coded `text/plain`. #4596
 * [BUGFIX] Querier: Disable query scheduler SRV DNS lookup, which removes noisy log messages about "failed DNS SRV record lookup". #4601
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 45c066eebd9..333f31059b3 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Our goal is to provide a new minor release every 6 weeks. This is a new process
 | v1.9.0         | 2021-04-29                                 | Goutham Veeramachaneni (@gouthamve)         |
 | v1.10.0        | 2021-06-25                                 | Bryan Boreham (@bboreham)                   |
 | v1.11.0        | 2021-08-06                                 | Marco Pracucci (@pracucci)                  |
-| v1.12.0        | 2021-09-17                                 |                                             |
+| v1.12.0        | 2022-02-17                                 | Alvin Lin (@alvinlin123)                    |
 
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