diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-docker.yml b/.github/workflows/release-docker.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f072bec..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release-docker.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-###############################################################
-#  **NOTE** - dockerization has more recently been happening
-#  in other repos (pbp-jupyter, pbp-binder, ...).
-#  TODO revisit this at some point.
-###############################################################
-
-name: Build and publish docker images
-
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v*'
-
-jobs:
-  build_and_push_ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - id: meta
-        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
-        with:
-          images: mbari/pbp
-          tags: |
-            type=semver,pattern={{version}}
-            type=semver,pattern={{major}}.{{minor}}
-            type=semver,pattern={{major}}
-      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
-        with:
-          context: .
-          file: docker/Dockerfile-minimal
-          push: true
-          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
-          labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
-
-#  build_and_push_macos_14:
-#    runs-on: macos-14
-#    steps:
-#      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-#      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-#        with:
-#          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-#          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-#      - id: meta
-#        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
-#        with:
-#          images: mbari/pbp-m1
-#          tags: |
-#            type=semver,pattern={{version}}
-#            type=semver,pattern={{major}}.{{minor}}
-#            type=semver,pattern={{major}}
-#      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
-#        with:
-#          context: .
-#          file: docker/Dockerfile-minimal
-#          push: true
-#          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
-#          labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 820da2c..b9b1634 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 2024-08
 
+- 1.2.8 - just a bit of cleanup, including removal of the release-docker workflow.
+  (dockerization is happening elsewhere, but doing it here can be revisited later).
 - 1.2.7 mainly to test new release-pypi action
 
 - 1.2.6 adjust python dep to `python = ">=3.9,<3.12.0"`
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 12a8596..f353f69 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "mbari-pbp"
-version = "1.2.71"
+version = "1.2.8"
 description = "PyPAM based Processing"
 authors = [
     "Carlos Rueda <carueda@mbari.org>",