diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index f26e82cb8..f5c125fe0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ Changelog
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Fix: Fix support of `ATOMIC_REBUILD` for projects with Elasticsearch client >=1.7.0 (Mikalai Radchuk)
+* Fix: Logging an indexing failure on an object with a non-ASCII representation no longer crashes on Python 2 (Aram Dulyan)
 
 
 1.12.3 (17.11.2017)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 0012c4ebb..b7ebe4d54 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ Contributors
 * David Moore
 * Pierre Geier
 * Jérôme Lebleu
+* Aram Dulyan
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.12.4.rst b/docs/releases/1.12.4.rst
index d8001f661..8784bcc9f 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.12.4.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.12.4.rst
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Fix support of ``ATOMIC_REBUILD`` for projects with Elasticsearch client ``>=1.7.0`` (Mikalai Radchuk)
+* Logging an indexing failure on an object with a non-ASCII representation no longer crashes on Python 2 (Aram Dulyan)