diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 856f72012..a0b5410fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 * Accept alias for supported MySQL datatypes (#544) PR #545
 * Support for pandas in `fetch` (#459, #537) PR #534
 * Support for ordering by "KEY" in `fetch` (#541) PR #534
+* Add config to enable python native blobs PR #672, #676
+* Add secure option for external storage (#663) PR #674, #676
+* Add blob migration utility from DJ011 to DJ012 PR #673
 * Improved external storage - a migration script needed from version 0.11  (#467, #475, #480, #497) PR #532
 * Increase default display rows (#523) PR #526
 * Bugfixes (#521, #205, #279, #477, #570, #581, #597, #596, #618, #633, #643, #644, #647, #648, #650, #656)
diff --git a/datajoint/version.py b/datajoint/version.py
index a0b0a0588..227649900 100644
--- a/datajoint/version.py
+++ b/datajoint/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-__version__ = "0.12.dev8"
+__version__ = "0.12.dev9"
 
 assert len(__version__) <= 10  # The log table limits version to the 10 characters