diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml
index 8a721063e6920d6b1e8953bf9f32b5175f614684..333f11bdefa5f333b4c61049662bc824b87d965f 100644
--- a/docs/_config.yml
+++ b/docs/_config.yml
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 # to reference a specific Flink version, because this is the only place where
 # we change the version for the complete docs when forking of a release branch
 # etc.
-version: "1.1-SNAPSHOT"
-version_hadoop1: "1.1-hadoop1-SNAPSHOT"
-version_short: "1.1" # Used for the top navbar w/o snapshot suffix
+version: "1.2-SNAPSHOT"
+version_hadoop1: "1.2-hadoop1-SNAPSHOT"
+version_short: "1.2" # Used for the top navbar w/o snapshot suffix
 
 # This suffix is appended to the Scala-dependent Maven artifact names
 scala_version_suffix: "_2.10"
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ github_url: "https://github.com/apache/flink"
 download_url: "http://flink.apache.org/downloads.html"
 
 # Setup quickstart uses this => to be changed
-FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_HADOOP1_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-0.9.1/flink-0.9.1-bin-hadoop1.tgz"
-FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_HADOOP2_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-0.9.1/flink-0.9.1-bin-hadoop2.tgz"
-FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_YARN_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-0.9.1/flink-0.9.1-bin-hadoop2-yarn.tgz"
+FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_HADOOP1_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-1.1.0/flink-1.1.0-bin-hadoop1.tgz"
+FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_HADOOP2_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-1.1.0/flink-1.1.0-bin-hadoop2.tgz"
+FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_YARN_STABLE: "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flink/flink-1.1.0/flink-1.1.0-bin-hadoop2-yarn.tgz"
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # BUILD CONFIG
diff --git a/tools/create_release_files.sh b/tools/create_release_files.sh
index 8514d8d07903c16e46f0d3af5b2bbe818c924f48..04c246c810a046596eb43ec39eeaa6161625b7ac 100755
--- a/tools/create_release_files.sh
+++ b/tools/create_release_files.sh
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 #   Can be called like this:
 #
 #    sonatype_user=APACHEID sonatype_pw=APACHEIDPASSWORD \
-#     NEW_VERSION=0.9.0 \
-#     RELEASE_CANDIDATE="rc1" RELEASE_BRANCH=release-0.9.0
-#     OLD_VERSION=0.9-SNAPSHOT \
+#     NEW_VERSION=1.2.0 \
+#     RELEASE_CANDIDATE="rc1" RELEASE_BRANCH=release-1.2.0
+#     OLD_VERSION=1.1-SNAPSHOT \
 #     USER_NAME=APACHEID \
 #     GPG_PASSPHRASE=XXX GPG_KEY=KEYID \
 #     GIT_AUTHOR="`git config --get user.name` <`git config --get user.email`>" \
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ fi
 GPG_PASSPHRASE=${GPG_PASSPHRASE:-XXX}
 GPG_KEY=${GPG_KEY:-XXX}
 GIT_AUTHOR=${GIT_AUTHOR:-"Your name <you@apache.org>"}
-OLD_VERSION=${OLD_VERSION:-0.10-SNAPSHOT}
+OLD_VERSION=${OLD_VERSION:-1.1-SNAPSHOT}
 RELEASE_VERSION=${NEW_VERSION}
 RELEASE_CANDIDATE=${RELEASE_CANDIDATE:-rc1}
 RELEASE_BRANCH=${RELEASE_BRANCH:-master}