# Release of Vitess v12.0.5
## Major Changes

### Upgrade to `go1.17.12`

Vitess `v12.0.5` now runs on `go1.17.12`.
The patch release of Go, `go1.17.12`, is the reason for this release as it includes important security fixes to packages used by Vitess.
Below is a summary of this patch release. You can learn more [here](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.17).

> go1.17.12 (released 2022-07-12) includes security fixes to the compress/gzip, encoding/gob, encoding/xml, go/parser, io/fs, net/http, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the runtime/metrics package. [See the Go 1.17.12 milestone](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.17.12+label%3ACherryPickApproved) on our issue tracker for details.
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The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/12.0/12.0.5/changelog.md).

The release includes 7 commits (excluding merges)

Thanks to all our contributors: @deepthi, @frouioui

