diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 544356b..a9b1ed4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.2.3 (2022-11-16)
+------------------
+
+ - use Text::ParseWords::shellwords instead of spawning a new shell
+ - mount and unmount once, instead for each run_chroot() call
+
 1.2.2 (2022-10-27)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 0686897..583ebb0 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.2.2';
+our $VERSION = '1.2.3';
 
 use English;
 use Getopt::Long;