Release v2.12.5
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 53d3c74..2c891bb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
NEWS file for libxml2
+v2.12.5: Feb 4 2024
+
+### Security
+
+- [CVE-2024-25062] xmlreader: Don't expand XIncludes when backtracking
+
+### Regressions
+
+- parser: Fix crash in xmlParseInNodeContext with HTML documents
+
+
v2.12.4: Jan 15 2024
### Regressions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a4a3a58..d099b87 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
m4_define([MAJOR_VERSION], 2)
m4_define([MINOR_VERSION], 12)
-m4_define([MICRO_VERSION], 4)
+m4_define([MICRO_VERSION], 5)
AC_INIT([libxml2],[MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION.MICRO_VERSION])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([entities.c])
