diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0f8f927..c6c0ebc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,6 +75,18 @@ Winners Circle camera is framed off the award stand itself rather than
 off whoever is standing on it, so the shot is the same one for every
 player at every head count.
 
+[v4.12.7](https://gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP412/releases/tag/v4.12.7)
+is about sticks. Anything that is not an Xbox-class pad — a flight stick,
+a HOTAS throttle, a twist grip, rudder pedals, a wheel — comes in through
+DirectInput rather than XInput, and the game could not see any of it.
+Now it can, and `joyconfig.bat` sets it up: the wizard asks you to move
+each control in turn, works out which device and axis answered and which
+way round it reads, and writes the joystick rows of `bindings.txt`,
+leaving anything you have edited yourself alone. A twist grip or rudder
+bar drives both pedals through one signed `Pedals` axis, and a real
+throttle lever owns its channel outright rather than nudging a position
+the way a spring-centred stick has to. Ported from the sibling BT411.
+
 ## Playing
 
 Grab the release zip (or run `pack-dist.ps1` on a build). Single player:
diff --git a/RP_L4/RPL4.CPP b/RP_L4/RPL4.CPP
index 00f1a4d..6ea588e 100644
--- a/RP_L4/RPL4.CPP
+++ b/RP_L4/RPL4.CPP
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine
       fclose(file);
    }
 
-   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.6" << std::endl << std::flush;
+   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.7" << std::endl << std::flush;
    DEBUG_STREAM << "L4CONTROLS=" << getenv("L4CONTROLS") << std::endl << std::flush;
 
 #ifdef RP412_STEAM
diff --git a/docs/rp412-controls.html b/docs/rp412-controls.html
index b9c84d1..35f67c3 100644
--- a/docs/rp412-controls.html
+++ b/docs/rp412-controls.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<title>Red Planet 4.12.6 — Controls</title>
+<title>Red Planet 4.12.7 — Controls</title>
 
 <style>
   :root {
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@
 <div class="wrap">
 
   <header class="masthead">
-    <p class="eyebrow">Virtual World Entertainment · Tesla pod · RP 4.12.6</p>
+    <p class="eyebrow">Virtual World Entertainment · Tesla pod · RP 4.12.7</p>
     <h1>Red Planet<br>Controls Map</h1>
     <p class="lede">
       Every input the pod answers to, on the gamepad and the keyboard. The
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@
   </section>
 
   <footer>
-    <span>Red Planet 4.12.6</span>
+    <span>Red Planet 4.12.7</span>
     <span>gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP412</span>
     <span>docs/CONTROLS.md · CONTROLS.txt ships with the game</span>
     <span>RGB keyboards mirror the pod lamps · RP412KEYLIGHT=0 to disable</span>
diff --git a/pack-dist.ps1 b/pack-dist.ps1
index e09800e..b5b9ef0 100644
--- a/pack-dist.ps1
+++ b/pack-dist.ps1
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ set RP412JOYCONFIG=
 "@
 
 Set-Content -Path "$dist\README.txt" -Encoding ascii -Value @"
-Red Planet 4.12.6
+Red Planet 4.12.7
 =================
 
 Run start-fullscreen.bat for borderless over the whole monitor, or
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ $size = (Get-ChildItem $dist -Recurse | Measure-Object Length -Sum).Sum
 Write-Host ("dist ready: {0:N1} MB" -f ($size / 1MB))
 
 if ($Zip) {
-    $zipPath = Join-Path $root 'RedPlanet-4.12.6.zip'
+    $zipPath = Join-Path $root 'RedPlanet-4.12.7.zip'
     Write-Host "zipping to $zipPath..."
 
     # Everything lives under a single RP412\ folder inside the zip, so