diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1b4c8c3..20f9989 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 * feature/makefile: generated projects ship a Makefile with build, format, format-dry-run, test and release targets in place of run.sh, with make in the dev container and the shared CI calling make.
 * feature/root-answers-file: generated projects keep their Copier answers in `.copier-py-answers.yml` at the root rather than in `.copier-generic-project/`; existing projects move the file once before their next update.
 * fix/devcontainer-timezone: the dev container, and CI with it, starts on hosts that have no /etc/timezone.
+* fix/bash-history-mount: shell history in the dev container persists between sessions.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 826e142..5969682 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v2.1.1
+v2.1.2
diff --git a/template/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json.jinja b/template/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json.jinja
index d3df70c..a8a055e 100644
--- a/template/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json.jinja
+++ b/template/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json.jinja
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     "mounts": [
         "type=bind,source=/etc/localtime,target=/etc/localtime,readonly",
-        "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/.devcontainer/.bash_history,target=/home/vscode/.bash_history,type=bind,consistency=cached"
+        "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/.devcontainer/.bash_history,target=/home/user/.bash_history,type=bind,consistency=cached"
     ],
 }