diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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-linux (3.8.11-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+linux (3.8.12-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  * New upstream stable update:
+    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.12
+    - [powerpc] spufs: Initialise inode->i_ino in spufs_new_inode()
+      (possibly fixes: #707175)
+    - iwlwifi: fix freeing uninitialized pointer
+    - tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three
+    - sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write and readdir
+    - [ia64] Fix initialization of CMCI/CMCP interrupts
+    - [ia64] Wrong asm register contraints in the futex implementation
+      (Closes: #702641)
+    - [ia64] Wrong asm register contraints in the kvm implementation
+      (Closes: #702639)
+    - fs/fscache/stats.c: fix memory leak
+    - hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures
+    - swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file
+    - mm: swap: mark swap pages writeback before queueing for direct IO
+    - ACPI: Fix wrong parameter passed to memblock_reserve
+    - cgroup: fix an off-by-one bug which may trigger BUG_ON()
+    - cgroup: fix broken file xattrs
+    - clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown (Closes: #700333)
+    - inotify: invalid mask should return a error number but not set it
+      (fixes regression in 3.8.1)
+    - exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock()
+    - md: bad block list should default to disabled.
+    - MD: ignore discard request for hard disks of hybid raid1/raid10 array
+      (fixes regression in 3.6)
+    - nfsd4: don't close read-write opens too soon
+    - wireless: regulatory: fix channel disabling race condition
+    - ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound
+    - jbd2: fix race between jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint and
+      ->j_commit_callback
+    - ext4: fix journal callback list traversal
+    - ext4: fix big-endian bug in metadata checksum calculations
+    - [x86] KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x
+      instructions
+
+  [ Ben Hutchings ]
   * [rt] Remove xen-linux-system packages and references to Xen support,
     as Xen does not support real-time scheduling
   * udeb: Fix configuration errors causing FTBFS: