Bump to version 1.2

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,4 +15,15 @@ Initial release of ExaStencils
 - Local solve function for systems of equations
 - Extended complex datatypes
 
+## v1.2: Feb 7, 2023
+
+- CUDA: Support for managed/pinned memory and zero copy
+- Vectorization: Add blending mechanism for masked updates. Support NEON intrinsics
+- OpenMP: Provide knowledge flags for OMP schedule clauses
+- Allow reductions for higher-order datatypes
+- Extend (automatic) performance evaluation capabilities
+- Visualization: Implement post-processing routines for XDMF and ExodusII file format. Enable interactive visualization and computational steering using VisIt libsim
+- I/O: Add support for (parallel) I/O using MPI-I/O, HDF5, SIONlib and (P)netCDF
+- Minor fixes for matrix datatypes
+
 ## v2.0: TBA