diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd91e30..9676b5e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
-  <version>1.1</version>
+  <version>1.2</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index 06f7369..6564a21 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
                           Apache Commons Text
-                              Version 1.1
+                              Version 1.2
                              Release Notes
 
 
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document contains the release notes for the 1.1 version of Apache Commons
+This document contains the release notes for the 1.2 version of Apache Commons
 Text. Commons Text is a set of utility functions and reusable components for 
 the purpose of processing and manipulating text that should be of use in a Java
 environment.
@@ -18,6 +18,47 @@
 ==============
 
 At our time of release of 1.1, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 159,
+and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible. However, when we
+run "mvn clean site" we have failures.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+=============
+
+o TEXT-74:   StrSubstitutor: Ability to turn off substitution in values. Thanks to Ioannis Sermetziadis.
+o TEXT-97:   RandomStringGenerator able to pass multiple ranges to .withinRange(). Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-89:   WordUtils.initials support for UTF-16 surrogate pairs. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-90:   Add CharacterPredicates for ASCII letters (uppercase/lowercase) and arabic numerals.
+o TEXT-85:   Added CaseUtils class with camel case conversion support. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-91:   RandomStringGenerator should be able to generate a String with a random length.
+o TEXT-102:  Add StrLookup.resourceBundleLookup(ResourceBundle).
+
+FIXED BUGS
+==========
+
+o TEXT-106:  Exception thrown in ExtendedMessageFormat using quotes with custom registry. Thanks to Benoit Moreau.
+o TEXT-100:  StringEscapeUtils#UnEscapeJson doesn't recognize escape signs correctly. Thanks to Don Jeba.
+o TEXT-105:  Typo in LongestCommonSubsequence#logestCommonSubsequence. Thanks to Abrasha.
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+o TEXT-107:  Upversion commons-lang to 3.7.
+o TEXT-98:   Deprecate isDelimiter and use HashSets for delimiter checks. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-88:   WordUtils should treat an empty delimiter array as no delimiters. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-93:   Update RandomStringGenerator to accept a list of valid characters. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-92:   Update commons-lang dependency to version 3.6.
+o TEXT-83:   Document that commons-csv should be used in preference to CsvTranslators. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-67:   NumericEntityUnescaper.options - fix TODO.
+o TEXT-84:   RandomStringGenerator claims to be immutable, but isn't.
+
+
+                        Release Notes for version 1.1
+
+
+JAVA 9 SUPPORT
+==============
+
+At our time of release of 1.1, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 159,
 and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible. However, when we 
 run "mvn clean site" we have failures.
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9410e6c..cbe808c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <version>42</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
-  <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.2</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Text</name>
   <description>Apache Commons Text is a library focused on algorithms working on strings.</description>
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.text</commons.module.name>
 
     <commons.release.version>1.2</commons.release.version>
+    <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(Java 7+)</commons.release.desc>
 
     <commons.jira.id>TEXT</commons.jira.id>
@@ -404,5 +405,17 @@
         <coveralls.skip>true</coveralls.skip>
       </properties>
     </profile>
+    <profile>
+      <!-- Temporary hack to suppress Javadoc 8 errors -->
+      <!-- to re-enable the checks, build with -P-javadoc_8 -->
+      <id>javadoc_8</id>
+      <activation>
+        <jdk>[1.8,)</jdk>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+        <!-- Disable Xdoclint, until JavaDoc issues are fixed -->
+        <additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/site/resources/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt b/src/site/resources/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6564a21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/site/resources/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+                          Apache Commons Text
+                              Version 1.2
+                             Release Notes
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document contains the release notes for the 1.2 version of Apache Commons
+Text. Commons Text is a set of utility functions and reusable components for 
+the purpose of processing and manipulating text that should be of use in a Java
+environment.
+
+Apache Commons Text is a library focused on algorithms working on strings.
+
+
+JAVA 9 SUPPORT
+==============
+
+At our time of release of 1.1, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 159,
+and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible. However, when we
+run "mvn clean site" we have failures.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+=============
+
+o TEXT-74:   StrSubstitutor: Ability to turn off substitution in values. Thanks to Ioannis Sermetziadis.
+o TEXT-97:   RandomStringGenerator able to pass multiple ranges to .withinRange(). Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-89:   WordUtils.initials support for UTF-16 surrogate pairs. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-90:   Add CharacterPredicates for ASCII letters (uppercase/lowercase) and arabic numerals.
+o TEXT-85:   Added CaseUtils class with camel case conversion support. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-91:   RandomStringGenerator should be able to generate a String with a random length.
+o TEXT-102:  Add StrLookup.resourceBundleLookup(ResourceBundle).
+
+FIXED BUGS
+==========
+
+o TEXT-106:  Exception thrown in ExtendedMessageFormat using quotes with custom registry. Thanks to Benoit Moreau.
+o TEXT-100:  StringEscapeUtils#UnEscapeJson doesn't recognize escape signs correctly. Thanks to Don Jeba.
+o TEXT-105:  Typo in LongestCommonSubsequence#logestCommonSubsequence. Thanks to Abrasha.
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+o TEXT-107:  Upversion commons-lang to 3.7.
+o TEXT-98:   Deprecate isDelimiter and use HashSets for delimiter checks. Thanks to Arun Vinud S S.
+o TEXT-88:   WordUtils should treat an empty delimiter array as no delimiters. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-93:   Update RandomStringGenerator to accept a list of valid characters. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-92:   Update commons-lang dependency to version 3.6.
+o TEXT-83:   Document that commons-csv should be used in preference to CsvTranslators. Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-67:   NumericEntityUnescaper.options - fix TODO.
+o TEXT-84:   RandomStringGenerator claims to be immutable, but isn't.
+
+
+                        Release Notes for version 1.1
+
+
+JAVA 9 SUPPORT
+==============
+
+At our time of release of 1.1, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 159,
+and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible. However, when we 
+run "mvn clean site" we have failures.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+============
+
+o TEXT-41:   WordUtils.abbreviate support Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-82:   Putting WordUtils back in to the codebase Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+o TEXT-81:   Add RandomStringGenerator Thanks to djones.
+o TEXT-36:   RandomStringGenerator: allow users to provide source of randomness
+             Thanks to Raymond DeCampo.
+                
+FIXED BUGS
+==========
+
+o TEXT-76:   Correct round issue in Jaro Winkler implementation
+o TEXT-72:   Similar to LANG-1025, clirr fails site build.
+                
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+o TEXT-39:   WordUtils should use toXxxxCase(int) rather than toXxxxCase(char) 
+             Thanks to Amey Jadiye.
+
+
+                        Release Notes for version 1.0
+
+
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+====================
+
+All package names changed from org.apache.commons.text.beta in 1.0-beta-1 to
+org.apache.commons.text in 1.0.
+
+Methods StringEscapeUtils#escapeHtml3Once and StringEscapeUtils#escapeHtml4Once
+have been removed; see TEXT-40
+
+JAVA 9 SUPPORT
+==============
+
+At our time of release of 1.0, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 158,
+and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible. However, when we run
+"mvn clean site" we have failures.
+
+FIXED BUGS
+==========
+
+o TEXT-64:   Investigate locale issue in ExtendedMessageFormatTest. Thanks to
+             chtompki.
+o TEXT-69:   Resolve PMD/CMD Violations
+o TEXT-65:   Fixing the 200 checkstyle errors present in 1.0-beta-1.
+o TEXT-63:   Mutable fields should be private.
+
+REMOVED
+=======
+
+o TEXT-40:   Escape HTML characters only once: revert.
+
+
+
+                        Release Notes for version 1.0-beta-1
+
+
+A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CODE
+=================================
+
+The codebase began in the fall of 2014 as a location for housing algorithms for
+operating on Strings that seemed to have a more complex nature than those which
+would be considered a needed extension to java.lang. Thus, a new component,
+different from Apache Commons Lang was warranted. As the project evolved, it was
+noticed that Commons Lang had considerable more text manipulation tools than
+the average Java application developer would need or even want. So, we have
+decided to move the more esoteric String processing algorithms out of Commons
+Lang into Commons Text.
+
+JAVA 9 SUPPORT
+==============
+
+At our time of release of 1.0-beta-1, our build succeeds with Java 9-ea build 153,
+and we believe all of our features to be Java 9 compatible.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+============
+
+o TEXT-56:   Move CvsTranslators out of StringEscapeUtils and make them DRY
+             Thanks to Jarek Strzeleck.
+o TEXT-40:   Escape HTML characters only once Thanks to Sampanna Kahu.
+o TEXT-32:   Add LCS similarity and distance
+o TEXT-34:   Add class to generate random strings
+o TEXT-29:   Add a builder to StringEscapeUtils
+o TEXT-28:   Add shell/XSI escape/unescape support
+o TEXT-2:    Add Jaccard Index and Jaccard Distance Thanks to Don Jeba.
+o TEXT-27:   Move org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.java into text
+o TEXT-23:   Moving from commons-lang, the package org.apache.commons.lang3.text
+o TEXT-10:   A more complex Levenshtein distance Thanks to Don Jeba.
+o TEXT-24:   Add coveralls and Travis.ci integration
+o TEXT-19:   Add alphabet converter Thanks to Eyal Allweil.
+o TEXT-13:   Create Commons Text logo
+o TEXT-7:    Write user guide
+o TEXT-15:   Human name parser
+o TEXT-3:    Add Cosine Similarity and Cosine Distance
+o TEXT-4:    Port Myers algorithm from [collections]
+o TEXT-1:    Add Hamming distance
+o TEXT-9:    Incorporate String algorithms from Commons Lang Thanks to britter.
+
+FIXED BUGS
+==========
+
+Note. We recognize the curiosity of a new component having "fixed bugs," but a
+considerable number of files were migrated over from Commons Lang, some of which
+needed fixes.
+
+o TEXT-62:   Incorporate suggestions from RC2 into 1.0 release.
+o TEXT-60:   Upgrading Jacoco for Java 9-ea compatibility. Thanks to Lee Adcock.
+o TEXT-52:   Possible attacks through StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScrip better
+             javadoc
+o TEXT-37:   Global vs local source of randomness
+o TEXT-38:   Fluent API in "RandomStringBuilder"
+o TEXT-26:   Fix JaroWinklerDistance in the manner of LUCENE-1297
+o TEXT-35:   Unfinished class Javadoc for CosineDistance
+o TEXT-22:   LevenshteinDistance reduce memory consumption
+o TEXT-5:    IP clearance for the names package
+o TEXT-11:   Work on the string metric, distance, and similarity definitions for
+             the project
+o TEXT-12:   Create StringDistanceFrom class that contains a StringMetric and
+             the "left" side string. This would have a method that accepts the
+             "right" side string to test. Thanks to Jonathan baker.
+o TEXT-8:    Change (R) StringMetric.compare(CS left, CS right) to "apply" so
+             that it is consistent with BiFunction. Thanks to Jonathan Baker.
+o TEXT-6:    Allow extra information (e.g. Levenshtein threshold) to be stored
+             as (final) fields in the StringMetric instance. Thanks to Jonathan
+             Baker.
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+o TEXT-61:   Naming packages org.apache.commons.text.beta Thanks to Lee Adcock.
+o TEXT-58:   Refactor EntityArrays to have unmodifiableMaps in leu of String[][]
+o TEXT-53:   Prepare site for 1.0 release
+o TEXT-50:   Upgrade from commons-parent version 41 to version 42
+o TEXT-33:   Consolidating since tags at 1.0, removing deprecated methods
+o TEXT-16:   Improve HumanNameParser
+
+REMOVED
+=======
+
+o TEXT-55:   Remove WordUtils to be added back in an upcoming 1.X release
+o TEXT-51:   Remove RandomStringGenerator to be added back in the 1.1 release
+o TEXT-31:   Remove org.apache.commons.text.names, for later release than 1.0
+
+
+Historical list of changes: http://commons.apache.org/text/changes-report.html
+
+For complete information on Apache Commons Text, including instructions on how
+to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache
+Apache Commons Text website:
+
+http://commons.apache.org/text/
+
+Have fun!
+-Apache Commons Text team
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_text.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_text.xml
index 6db9f86..d71e436 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_text.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_text.xml
@@ -111,32 +111,32 @@
       </p>
     </subsection>
     </section>
-    <section name="Apache Commons Text 1.1 (Java 7+)">
+    <section name="Apache Commons Text 1.2 (Java 7+)">
       <subsection name="Binaries">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.tar.gz">commons-text-1.1-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.tar.gz">commons-text-1.2-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.zip">commons-text-1.1-bin.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.1-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.zip">commons-text-1.2-bin.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/binaries/commons-text-1.2-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
       <subsection name="Source">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.tar.gz">commons-text-1.1-src.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.tar.gz">commons-text-1.2-src.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.zip">commons-text-1.1-src.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.1-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.zip">commons-text-1.2-src.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/text/source/commons-text-1.2-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index a49c41c..f0f826f 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
 </section>
 <!-- ================================================== -->
 <section name="Release Information">
-<p>The latest stable release of Text is 1.1. You may: </p>
+<p>The latest stable release of Text is 1.2. You may: </p>
 <ul>
-<li>Download <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/download_text.cgi">1.1</a></li>
-<li>Read the <a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.1.txt">1.1 release notes</a></li>
+<li>Download <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/download_text.cgi">1.2</a></li>
+<li>Read the <a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt">1.2 release notes</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 Alternatively you can pull it from the central Maven repositories:
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 &lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.commons&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-text&lt;/artifactId&gt;
-   &lt;version&gt;1.1&lt;/version&gt;
+   &lt;version&gt;1.2&lt;/version&gt;
 &lt;/dependency&gt;
 </pre>
 </p>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml b/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
index 27580e4..cacbd43 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/release-history.xml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 <table>
 <tr><th>Version</th><th>Release date</th><th>Required Java Version</th><th>Javadoc</th><th>Release notes</th></tr>
 <tr>
+  <td>1.2</td><td>12-8-2017</td><td>7.0</td><td><a href="javadocs/api-1.2/">api-1.2</a></td><td><a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.2.txt">release notes for 1.2</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
   <td>1.1</td><td>5-23-2017</td><td>7.0</td><td><a href="javadocs/api-1.1/">api-1.1</a></td><td><a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.1.txt">release notes for 1.1</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>