diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b586b271c..8cf444ca7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Upcoming 1.2.1
+## 1.2.1
 
 ### Features:
  * add an option to always refer to lora by filenames
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  * fix upscalers disappearing after the user reloads UI
  * allow bf16 in safe unpickler (resolves problems with loading some loras)
  * allow web UI to be ran fully offline
+ * fix localizations not working
+ * fix error for loras: 'LatentDiffusion' object has no attribute 'lora_layer_mapping'
 
 ## 1.2.0
 
diff --git a/extensions-builtin/Lora/lora.py b/extensions-builtin/Lora/lora.py
index 1a5b3c2d9..1308c48ba 100644
--- a/extensions-builtin/Lora/lora.py
+++ b/extensions-builtin/Lora/lora.py
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ def load_lora(name, filename):
 
     sd = sd_models.read_state_dict(filename)
 
+    # this should not be needed but is here as an emergency fix for an unknown error people are experiencing in 1.2.0
+    if not hasattr(shared.sd_model, 'lora_layer_mapping'):
+        assign_lora_names_to_compvis_modules(shared.sd_model)
+
     keys_failed_to_match = {}
     is_sd2 = 'model_transformer_resblocks' in shared.sd_model.lora_layer_mapping