diff --git a/gstlal-calibration/configure.ac b/gstlal-calibration/configure.ac
index 6152e9a999e70f68ee1ab5ea19014e5b4f444249..d0143a81efb640260079ab2113573c79b1c2d843 100644
--- a/gstlal-calibration/configure.ac
+++ b/gstlal-calibration/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 
 
-AC_INIT([gstlal-calibration],[1.2.0],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-calibration])
+AC_INIT([gstlal-calibration],[1.2.1],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-calibration])
 AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Madeline Wade, Aaron Viets])
 # a file whose existance can be used to use to check that we are in the
 # top-level directory of the source tree
diff --git a/gstlal-calibration/debian/changelog b/gstlal-calibration/debian/changelog
index 672d8532437962ff6d86f0766b66f26a80ceb811..2ad53671b0ec7c78f4ce6003997e4ae3d75a4f7c 100644
--- a/gstlal-calibration/debian/changelog
+++ b/gstlal-calibration/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+gstlal-calibration (1.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Minor fix so tests/ directory builds
+
+ -- Madeline Wade <madeline.wade@ligo.org>  Fri, 28 Sept 2018 17:03:00 -0500
+
 gstlal-calibration (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Incorporate corrections for SRC detuning parameters