diff --git a/contrib/debian/changelog b/contrib/debian/changelog
index 1da00f690..9837f656f 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/changelog
+++ b/contrib/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+zcash (1.0.12~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * 1.0.12-rc1 release.
+
+ -- Zcash Company <team@z.cash>  Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:51:36 +0100
+
 zcash (1.0.11) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * 1.0.11 release.
diff --git a/doc/authors.md b/doc/authors.md
index 8d3010dc6..93a30c1c2 100644
--- a/doc/authors.md
+++ b/doc/authors.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Zcash Contributors
 ==================
 
-Jack Grigg (445)
-Simon Liu (269)
+Jack Grigg (465)
+Simon Liu (272)
 Sean Bowe (188)
 Daira Hopwood (102)
 Taylor Hornby (65)
 Wladimir J. van der Laan (61)
-Nathan Wilcox (51)
+Nathan Wilcox (56)
 Jay Graber (49)
 Jonas Schnelli (48)
 Kevin Gallagher (38)
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ Daniel Cousens (4)
 lpescher (3)
 kozyilmaz (3)
 Pavel Janík (3)
+Ariel Gabizon (3)
 Alfie John (3)
 str4d (2)
 paveljanik (2)
+kpcyrd (2)
 aniemerg (2)
 Scott (2)
 Robert C. Seacord (2)
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ Joe Turgeon (2)
 Jack Gavigan (2)
 ITH4Coinomia (2)
 Gavin Andresen (2)
-Ariel Gabizon (2)
+Bjorn Hjortsberg (2)
 Amgad Abdelhafez (2)
 zathras-crypto (1)
 unsystemizer (1)
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ ayleph (1)
 Tom Ritter (1)
 Stephen (1)
 S. Matthew English (1)
+Ross Nicoll (1)
 Pavel Vasin (1)
 Paul Georgiou (1)
 Paragon Initiative Enterprises, LLC (1)
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ Lars-Magnus Skog (1)
 Kevin Pan (1)
 Jorge Timón (1)
 Jeffrey Walton (1)
+Jason Davies (1)
 Ian Kelling (1)
 Gaurav Rana (1)
 Forrest Voight (1)
@@ -86,6 +90,7 @@ Bryan Stitt (1)
 Boris Hajduk (1)
 Bob McElrath (1)
 Bitcoin Error Log (1)
+Ariel (1)
 Allan Niemerg (1)
 Alex van der Peet (1)
 Alex (1)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.12-rc1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.12-rc1.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27d36b7e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.12-rc1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+Changelog
+=========
+
+Ariel (1):
+      add examples to z_getoperationresult
+
+Ariel Gabizon (1):
+      add load-wallet benchmark
+
+Bjorn Hjortsberg (2):
+      Do not warn on built in declaration mismatch
+      Remove deprecated exception specification
+
+Jack Grigg (20):
+      ci-workers: Enable pipelining, and use root to set admin and host details
+      Variable overrides for Arch Linux
+      Rationalize currency unit to "ZEC"
+      ci-workers: Fail if Python is not version 2.7
+      ci-workers: Variable overrides and process tweaks for CentOS 7
+      Add build progress to the release script if progressbar module is available
+      Add hotfix support to release script
+      Document the hotfix release process
+      Enforce sequential hotfix versioning
+      Benchmark time to call sendtoaddress with many UTXOs
+      Fix bug in benchmark data generation script
+      Adjust instructions for UTXO dataset creation
+      Add GitHub release notes to release process
+      Clarify branching and force-building operations in hotfix process
+      Update user guide translations as part of release process
+      make-release.py: Send stderr to stdout
+      List dependencies for release script in release process doc
+      Additional test cases for importprivkey RPC test
+      make-release.py: Versioning changes for 1.0.12-rc1.
+      make-release.py: Updated manpages for 1.0.12-rc1.
+
+Jason Davies (1):
+      Fix deprecation policy comment.
+
+Nathan Wilcox (5):
+      key_import_export rpc-test: verify that UTXO view co-evolves for nodes sharing a key.
+      Add a new rpc-test-specified requirement: `importprivkey` outputs the associated address. (Test fails.)
+      [tests pass] Output address on new key import.
+      Add a new requirement that `importprivkey` API is idempotent.
+      [tests pass] Ensure `importprivkey` outputs the address in case key is already imported.
+
+Ross Nicoll (1):
+      Rationalize currency unit to "BTC"
+
+Simon Liu (3):
+      Closes #2583. Exclude watch-only utxos from z_sendmany coin selection.
+      Set up a clean chain.     Delete redundant method wait_until_miner_sees() via use of sync_all().
+      Implement RPC shield_coinbase #2448.
+
+kpcyrd (2):
+      Fetch params from ipfs if possible
+      Prefer wget over ipfs
+