diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 95f27a7..85a638c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as path:
 
 Here are the definitions:
 
-`convert_from_path(pdf_path, dpi=200, output_folder=None, first_page=None, last_page=None, fmt='ppm', jpegopt=None, thread_count=1, userpw=None, use_cropbox=False, strict=False, transparent=False, single_file=False, output_file=str(uuid.uuid4()), poppler_path=None, grayscale=False, size=None, paths_only=False)`
+`convert_from_path(pdf_path, dpi=200, output_folder=None, first_page=None, last_page=None, fmt='ppm', jpegopt=None, thread_count=1, userpw=None, use_cropbox=False, strict=False, transparent=False, single_file=False, output_file=str(uuid.uuid4()), poppler_path=None, grayscale=False, size=None, paths_only=False, use_pdftocairo=False)`
 
-`convert_from_bytes(pdf_file, dpi=200, output_folder=None, first_page=None, last_page=None, fmt='ppm', jpegopt=None, thread_count=1, userpw=None, use_cropbox=False, strict=False, transparent=False, single_file=False, output_file=str(uuid.uuid4()), poppler_path=None, grayscale=False, size=None, paths_only=False)`
+`convert_from_bytes(pdf_file, dpi=200, output_folder=None, first_page=None, last_page=None, fmt='ppm', jpegopt=None, thread_count=1, userpw=None, use_cropbox=False, strict=False, transparent=False, single_file=False, output_file=str(uuid.uuid4()), poppler_path=None, grayscale=False, size=None, paths_only=False, use_pdftocairo=False)`
 
 ## Need help?
 
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Use the [mattermost chat](https://mattermost.belval.org/signup_user_complete/?id
 
 ## What's new?
 
+- Add `use_pdftocairo` parameter which forces `pdf2image` to use `pdftocairo`. Should improve performance.
 - Fixed a bug where using `pdf2image` with multiple threads (but not multiple processes) would cause and exception
 - `jpegopt` parameter allows for tuning of the output JPEG when using `fmt="jpeg"` (`-jpegopt` in pdftoppm CLI) (Thank you @abieler)
 - `pdfinfo_from_path` and `pdfinfo_from_bytes` which expose the output of the pdfinfo CLI
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d660b01..4da2817 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="pdf2image",
-    version="1.12.1",
+    version="1.13.0",
     description="A wrapper around the pdftoppm and pdftocairo command line tools to convert PDF to a PIL Image list.",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",