diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b7530d9a..bf86becd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - Removed duplicated check in RpoFalcon512 verification (#368).
 - Added parallel implementation of `Smt::compute_mutations` with better performance (#365).
 - Implemented parallel leaf hashing in `Smt::process_sorted_pairs_to_leaves` (#365).
+- [BREAKING] Updated Winterfell dependency to v0.12 (#374).
 
 ## 0.13.2 (2025-01-24)
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 99b7e0b9..51856c46 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1230,9 +1230,9 @@ checksum = "589f6da84c646204747d1270a2a5661ea66ed1cced2631d546fdfb155959f9ec"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winter-crypto"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "67c57748fd2da77742be601f03eda639ff6046879738fd1faae86e80018263cb"
+checksum = "32247cde9f43e5bbd05362caa7274608790ea69b14f7c81cd509aae7127c5ff2"
 dependencies = [
  "blake3",
  "sha3",
@@ -1242,9 +1242,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winter-math"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6020c17839fa107ce4a7cc178e407ebbc24adfac1980f4fa2111198e052700ab"
+checksum = "326dfe4bfa4072b7c909133a88f8807820d3e49e5dfd246f67981771f74a0ed3"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "winter-utils",
@@ -1252,9 +1252,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winter-rand-utils"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "226e4c455f6eb72f64ac6eeb7642df25e21ff2280a4f6b09db75392ad6b390ef"
+checksum = "fc6321741f063344258c80f0c0255a559ded99bc17fe99fab9577f2460065ddf"
 dependencies = [
  "rand",
  "winter-utils",
@@ -1262,9 +1262,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winter-utils"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1507ef312ea5569d54c2c7446a18b82143eb2a2e21f5c3ec7cfbe8200c03bd7c"
+checksum = "2d47518e6931955dcac73a584cacb04550b82ab2f45c72880cbbbdbe13adb63c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wit-bindgen-rt"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index febb4715..d1618591 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ num = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["alloc", "libm"]
 num-complex = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
 rand = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
 rand_core = { version = "0.6", default-features = false }
-rand-utils = { version = "0.11", package = "winter-rand-utils", optional = true }
+rand-utils = { version = "0.12", package = "winter-rand-utils", optional = true }
 rayon = { version = "1.10", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
 sha3 = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
 thiserror = { version = "2.0", default-features = false }
-winter-crypto = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
-winter-math = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
-winter-utils = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
+winter-crypto = { version = "0.12", default-features = false }
+winter-math = { version = "0.12", default-features = false }
+winter-utils = { version = "0.12", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches = { version = "1.5", default-features = false }
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ getrandom = { version = "0.2", features = ["js"] }
 hex = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 proptest = "1.6"
 rand_chacha = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-rand-utils = { version = "0.11", package = "winter-rand-utils" }
+rand-utils = { version = "0.12", package = "winter-rand-utils" }
 seq-macro = { version = "0.3" }
 
 [build-dependencies]