diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
index eddef23..f86e537 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@
    a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
    completion part while making prompting part always available.
 
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+   similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+   highlights them accordingly.
+
 
 Foreign Interface
 
@@ -124,6 +128,14 @@
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
+   of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
+   (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
+   filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
+   (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint).
+
  * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
    to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
    (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index fde74a6..22bb229 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.11.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.7.12-rc0
 
 LF='
 '