diff --git a/.versioneer-lookup b/.versioneer-lookup
index b0de673d..86ee131b 100644
--- a/.versioneer-lookup
+++ b/.versioneer-lookup
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ master
 HEAD
 \(detached.*
 
-# maintenance is currently the branch for preparation of maintenance release 1.2.8
+# maintenance is currently the branch for preparation of maintenance release 1.2.9
 # so are any fix/... branches
-maintenance 1.2.8 6c622f7c4332b71c6ece59552ffc87c146155c84 pep440-dev
-fix/.* 1.2.8 6c622f7c4332b71c6ece59552ffc87c146155c84 pep440-dev
+maintenance 1.2.9 dedadbc9ac0305799e94ae279d3bca131629c4c5 pep440-dev
+fix/.* 1.2.9 dedadbc9ac0305799e94ae279d3bca131629c4c5 pep440-dev
 
 # every other branch is a development branch and thus gets resolved to 1.3.0-dev for now
 .* 1.3.0 198d3450d94be1a2 pep440-dev