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+# RELEASE NOTES
+
+PAR - Preservation Action Registries
+
+PAR is made available under the Apache v2.0 license, see the file LICENSE for details.
+
+## PAR 1.2.0
+
+2023-06-08
+
+- API definition now written in OpenAPI 3.1 not Swagger 2.x. [[#58][]] [[#61][]]
+  Simple version change and updating of `example` to `examples` in the API definition.
+- GitHub actions to replace Travis. [[#56][]]
+- NotImplemented response. [[#59][]]
+  This was achieved by adding a standard response component to the API definition, so:
+
+```yaml
+components:
+responses:
+NotImplemented:
+    description: The method called is currently not implemented by this server.
+    content: {}
+Unauthorized:
+    description: If no Authorization header has been supplied
+    content: {}
+Forbidden:
+    description: If the supplied Authorization header does not reference a user
+    with write access to this registry.
+    content: {}
+```
+
+- Format signature encoding support. [[#62][]]
+  Added an enumerated encoding property to the format signature entity:
+
+```yaml
+"encoding": {
+    "default": "PRONOM",
+    "enum": [
+    "PRONOM",
+    "ASCII",
+    "HEX",
+    "REGEX_PERL"
+    ],
+    "type": "string"
+```
+
+- API document publication. [[#63][]]
+- Schema versioning and publication. [[#68][]]
+
+[#58]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/58
+[#56]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/56
+[#59]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/59
+[#61]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/61
+[#62]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/62
+[#63]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/63
+[#68]: https://github.com/openpreserve/par/pull/68