diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index b5da9bda9..898f2cbbc 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Release History
 ===============
 
+5.12.4.(2023-12-31)
+-------------------
+
+* Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in https://github.com/burnash/gspread/pull/1370
+* Fixed default value of merge_type parameter in merge_cells function docstring. by @neolooong in https://github.com/burnash/gspread/pull/1373
+
 5.12.3 (2023-12-15)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/gspread/__init__.py b/gspread/__init__.py
index 16d7f8a76..4733cb6be 100644
--- a/gspread/__init__.py
+++ b/gspread/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Google Spreadsheets Python API"""
 
-__version__ = "5.12.3"
+__version__ = "5.12.4"
 __author__ = "Anton Burnashev"