diff --git a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
index f077e87b8..ab2cdb27b 100644
--- a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "1.1.1"
+__version__ = "1.2.0"
 __DOWNLOAD_SERVER__ = 'http://sbert.net/models/'
 from .datasets import SentencesDataset, ParallelSentencesDataset
 from .LoggingHandler import LoggingHandler
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f1974496a..5fa42fe39 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="sentence-transformers",
-    version="1.1.1",
+    version="1.2.0",
     author="Nils Reimers",
     author_email="info@nils-reimers.de",
     description="Sentence Embeddings using BERT / RoBERTa / XLM-R",
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     license="Apache License 2.0",
     url="https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers",
-    download_url="https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/archive/v1.1.1.zip",
+    download_url="https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/archive/v1.2.0.zip",
     packages=find_packages(),
     install_requires=[
         'transformers>=3.1.0,<5.0.0',