diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index c1c2548d..aaad6fc8 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
   echo "Usage: $0 VERSION [PLATFORM]"
   echo "Build shared libraries for libvips and its dependencies via containers"
   echo
-  echo "Please specify the libvips VERSION, e.g. 8.12.0"
+  echo "Please specify the libvips VERSION, e.g. 8.12.1"
   echo
   echo "Optionally build for only one PLATFORM, defaults to building for all"
   echo
diff --git a/build/lin.sh b/build/lin.sh
index 6be38296..4f16967f 100755
--- a/build/lin.sh
+++ b/build/lin.sh
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ version_latest "exif" "$VERSION_EXIF" "1607"
 version_latest "lcms2" "$VERSION_LCMS2" "9815"
 #version_latest "mozjpeg" "$VERSION_MOZJPEG" "" # not yet in release monitoring
 version_latest "png" "$VERSION_PNG16" "1705"
-#version_latest "spng" "$VERSION_SPNG" "24289" # release monitoring still has 0.7.0
+version_latest "spng" "$VERSION_SPNG" "24289"
 version_latest "webp" "$VERSION_WEBP" "1761"
 version_latest "tiff" "$VERSION_TIFF" "1738"
 version_latest "orc" "$VERSION_ORC" "2573"