From 8e75f421b2abdeb46e4e73cedb5611bd76d0df00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@edx.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:05:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] CHANGELOG entry for 1.2.7

---
 CHANGELOG.rst      | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 README.rst         |  2 ++
 xblock/VERSION.txt |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 24a622e0e..acef059b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ Change history for XBlock
 
 These are notable changes in XBlock.
 
+1.2.7 - 2019-10-15
+------------------
+
+* Changed how illegal XML characters are sanitized, to speed the operation.
+  The old way was removing more characters than are required by the XML
+  specification.
+
+1.2.6 - 2019-09-24
+------------------
+
+* Add support for relative dates to DateTime fields.
+
+1.2.5 - 2019-09-19
+------------------
+
+* Changes for Python 2/3 compatibility.
+
 1.2.4 - 2019-08-27
 ------------------
 
@@ -15,6 +32,7 @@ These are notable changes in XBlock.
 
 1.2.3 - 2019-07-24
 ------------------
+
 Allow Mixologist class to consume both class objects and string paths to classes as a part of initialization.
 
 1.2.1 - 2018-09-05
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 488f79514..0c7105187 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ Packaging
 
 To package a new release:
 
+#. Describe the release in CHANGELOG.rst
+
 #. Update the version number in xblock/VERSION.txt.
 
 #. Tag the commit to be released::
diff --git a/xblock/VERSION.txt b/xblock/VERSION.txt
index 3c43790f5..c04c650a7 100644
--- a/xblock/VERSION.txt
+++ b/xblock/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.6
+1.2.7