doc/news.texi | 2 ++
 makedist.sh   | 3 +++

diff --git a/doc/news.texi b/doc/news.texi
index 1bb56ac5398d537e73cdbf6123cf437234b3db117cceade057d26c7bcd713eed..a8e6ba6dc15f5a31c84132ae179f4c6d6627844a85527adb6120a5e78081a7c0 100644
--- a/doc/news.texi
+++ b/doc/news.texi
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ @section Release 0.12.2
 @itemize
 @item
     Try to fix failing @code{lukechampine.com/blake3} on arm64 macOS.
+@item
+    Fixed tests permissions in the tarball.
 @end itemize
 
 @anchor{Release 0.12.1}
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index 8979350aa18341205fefab29012fa6be9d54994053533378bb71d5fa15691276..74a9c79b16ed6043380675e49e9a3626f25051ca1201c44dfc31bb38b579721a 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
 rm -rf *.texi .redo .git .gitignore doc makedist.sh VERSION.do
 find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
 find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+find t/redo-sh.tests -name test -exec chmod +x {} \+
+find t -name wrapper.rc -exec chmod +x {} \+
+chmod +x t/apenwarr/sleep t/goredo-*.t
 
 cd ..
 tar cvf goredo-"$release".tar --uid=0 --gid=0 --numeric-owner goredo-"$release"