diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 53c3471246..da1ce5a05f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,10 +14,15 @@ RSS alerts of problems in their area.
 
 It was created in 2007 by [mySociety](http://www.mysociety.org/) for reporting
 problems to UK councils and has been copied around the world. The FixMyStreet
-Platform is now at version 1.2.3.
+Platform is now at version 1.2.4.
 
 ## Releases
 
+* v1.2.4 (5th September 2013)
+    - A fix for the long-standing issue where multiline strings were not being
+      translated (reported at https://github.com/abw/Template2/pull/29 )
+    - Better translation strings for "marked as" updates, fixes #391
+    - Less noise when running the tests
 * v1.2.3 (2nd September 2013)
     - Maintenance release to deal with failing installation
     - Improve reuse of make_css and shared CSS
diff --git a/bin/site-specific-install.sh b/bin/site-specific-install.sh
index d5d10d3080..d3da12104f 100644
--- a/bin/site-specific-install.sh
+++ b/bin/site-specific-install.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # Set this to the version we want to check out
-VERSION=${VERSION_OVERRIDE:-v1.2.3}
+VERSION=${VERSION_OVERRIDE:-v1.2.4}
 
 PARENT_SCRIPT_URL=https://github.com/mysociety/commonlib/blob/master/bin/install-site.sh