From d167eab473c1b772f0d5f999d580c8bf3ef9b59f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleh Prypin <oleh@pryp.in>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:27:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Release 1.2.3 (#2614)

---
 docs/about/release-notes.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mkdocs/__init__.py          |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/about/release-notes.md b/docs/about/release-notes.md
index 33e75ad6dd..64aee9f6c3 100644
--- a/docs/about/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/about/release-notes.md
@@ -21,6 +21,33 @@ The current and past members of the MkDocs team.
 * [@d0ugal](https://github.com/d0ugal/)
 * [@waylan](https://github.com/waylan/)
 
+## Version 1.2.3 (2021-10-12)
+
+* Built-in themes now also support these languages:
+    * Simplified Chinese (#2497)
+    * Japanese (#2525)
+    * Brazilian Portuguese (#2535)
+    * Spanish (#2545, previously #2396)
+
+* Third-party plugins will take precedence over built-in plugins with the same
+  name (#2591)
+
+* Bugfix: Fix ability to load translations for some languages:
+  core support (#2565) and search plugin support with fallbacks (#2602)
+
+* Bugfix (regression in 1.2): Prevent directory traversal in the dev server
+  (#2604)
+
+* Bugfix (regression in 1.2): Prevent webserver warnings from being treated as
+  a build failure in strict mode (#2607)
+
+* Bugfix: Correctly print colorful messages in the terminal on Windows (#2606)
+
+* Bugfix: Python version 3.10 was displayed incorrectly in `--version` (#2618)
+
+Other small improvements; see
+[commit log](https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/compare/1.2.2...1.2.3).
+
 ## Version 1.2.2 (2021-07-18)
 
 * Bugfix (regression in 1.2): Fix serving files/paths with Unicode characters
diff --git a/mkdocs/__init__.py b/mkdocs/__init__.py
index 4cf6396858..69760b0649 100644
--- a/mkdocs/__init__.py
+++ b/mkdocs/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 
 # For acceptable version formats, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-__version__ = '1.2.2'
+__version__ = '1.2.3'