diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 09725ba761e282fd290b4ffd391d08dbd12772b4..e0c57c86048251f3125b58e17aa9b999cd4581f3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 
+## v0.12.0 -  2020-09-21  - Documentation and Bugfixes
+
+### general:
+- improved documentation include installation instructions and many examples from the paper, #153 
+- bugfixes (see technical)
+
+### new features:
+- `MyLittleModel` is now a pure feed-forward network (before it had a CNN part), #168
+
+### technical:
+- new compile options check to ensure its execution, #154 
+- bugfix for key errors in time series plot, #169 
+- bugfix for not used kwargs in `DefaultDataHandler`, #170 
+- `trainable` parameter is renamed by `train_model` to prevent confusion with the tf trainable parameter, #162 
+- fixed HPC installation failure, #159
+
+
 ## v0.11.0 -  2020-08-24  -  Advanced Data Handling for MLAir
 
 ### general
@@ -11,7 +28,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ### new features
 - default data handler using TOAR DB refactored according to advanced data handling, #140, #141, #152
-- data sets are handled as collections, #142, and are itable in a standard way (StandardIterator) and optimised for 
+- data sets are handled as collections, #142, and are iterable in a standard way (StandardIterator) and optimised for 
   keras (KerasIterator), #143
 - automatically moving station map plot, #136
 
diff --git a/docs/_source/changelog.rst b/docs/_source/changelog.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b0ff367fc2e75ef02d540d7888f390d8aad18c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/_source/changelog.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Changelog
+=========
+
+.. include:: ../../CHANGELOG.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/_source/index.rst b/docs/_source/index.rst
index a60643042eb750b6a21fa0f638797002be7675c4..5777cf162545d81c11e3834c74a62271d05254d2 100644
--- a/docs/_source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/_source/index.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Welcome to MLAir's documentation!
 
    get-started
    customise
+   changelog
 
 
 Indices and tables
diff --git a/mlair/__init__.py b/mlair/__init__.py
index 9886cd102f7aa88d93fb84fc4acdebfcbf6581fc..0cfc33bb6ca17496e68e5e6281fa37a53a66466b 100644
--- a/mlair/__init__.py
+++ b/mlair/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 __version_info__ = {
     'major': 0,
-    'minor': 11,
+    'minor': 12,
     'micro': 0,
 }