diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 9d94bbeaf..909381281 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ formats: []
 
 python:
   pip_install: true
-  version: 3.7
+  version: 3.10
   extra_requirements:
         - docs
diff --git a/CONTRIB b/CONTRIB
index bb3f13ad2..ae92ee017 100644
--- a/CONTRIB
+++ b/CONTRIB
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Licensing:
 ## Releases
 For you dev op folks who release builds to the larger community ...
 
-Be sure to edit the conf.py, and update the release tag: doc/conf.py
+Update the release tag: doc/conf.py
 And also edit setup.py and assure that has the same release tag.
 New versions of SpiffWorkflow are automatically published to PyPi whenever
 a maintainer of our GitHub repository creates a new release on  GitHub.  This
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index ca10c199a..8cbd761e7 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ copyright = '2022, Sartography'
 author = 'Sartography'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.2.0'
+release = '1.2.1'
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 30adfa29b..d637c5873 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
 README = (HERE / "README.md").read_text()
 
 setup(name='SpiffWorkflow',
-      version='1.2.0',
+      version='1.2.1',
       description='A workflow framework and BPMN/DMN Processor',
       long_description=README,
       long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ setup(name='SpiffWorkflow',
       packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', 'tests.*']),
       install_requires=['configparser', 'lxml', 'celery', 'dateparser', 'pytz',
           # required for python 3.7 - https://stackoverflow.com/a/73932581
-          'importlib-metadata<5.0'],
+          'importlib-metadata<5.0; python_version <= "3.7"'],
       keywords='spiff workflow bpmn engine',
       url='https://github.com/sartography/SpiffWorkflow',
       classifiers=[