diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6a8d396a87..90adf6df42 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+7.2.0-rc1.12 | 2025-05-07 17:25:07 +0200
+
+  * btest/cluster/generic/publish-any: Apply Christian's fix from broker/publish-any (Arne Welzel, Corelight)
+
+    (cherry picked from commit 8089f5bed422e0da38dde631f88d6371c3d66c2f)
+
+  * wstest/terminate-while-queueing: Patch close_socket() (Arne Welzel, Corelight)
+
+    (cherry picked from commit 8089f5bed422e0da38dde631f88d6371c3d66c2f)
+
 7.2.0-rc1.11 | 2025-05-07 14:06:06 +0200
 
   * cluster/websocket: Stop and wait for reply thread during Terminate() (Arne Welzel, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d9fec82f98..4ca1764b33 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.2.0-rc1.11
+7.2.0-rc1.12
diff --git a/testing/btest/Files/ws/wstest.py b/testing/btest/Files/ws/wstest.py
index 8286bb2ed2..fa746c882b 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Files/ws/wstest.py
+++ b/testing/btest/Files/ws/wstest.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ The wstest.main() helper will retry running test_fun on ConnectionRefusedError.
 
 import json
 import os
+import socket
 import time
 from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, Union
 
@@ -221,3 +222,58 @@ def main(f: Callable, *args, **kwargs):
             break
         except ConnectionRefusedError:
             time.sleep(MAIN_SLEEP)
+
+
+def monkey_patch_close_socket():
+    """
+    Monkey patch websockets.sync.ClientConnection.close_socket()
+
+    What's commented out from the original implementation is calling
+    receive_eof() on self.protocol as well as acknowledge_pending_pings().
+
+    The reason for doing this is that in the scneario where the websockets
+    library detects a closed socket during sending, it'll call close_socket()
+    which in turn invokes protocol.receive_eof().
+
+    However, when the concurrently running recv_events() thread is racing
+    and has just successfully received the server's CLOSE frame, the EOF
+    set on protocol results in an EOFError for the receiving thread instead
+    of processing the CLOSE frame. It then further reports an
+    "unexpected internal error".
+
+    Changing the close_socket() implemenation allows the EOF condition
+    to be set only on the receiving side, avoiding the race.
+    """
+
+    def __custom_close_socket(self):
+        """
+        The original implementation is taken from Connection.close_socket()
+        in sync/connection.py (version 15.0.1).
+
+        """
+        # shutdown() is required to interrupt recv() on Linux.
+        try:
+            self.socket.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+        except OSError:
+            pass  # socket is already closed
+        self.socket.close()
+
+        # Calling protocol.receive_eof() is safe because it's idempotent.
+        # This guarantees that the protocol state becomes CLOSED.
+        #
+        # Commented out: Let the recv_events() threads do EOF handling.
+        #
+        # with self.protocol_mutex:
+        #    self.protocol.receive_eof()
+        #    assert self.protocol.state is CLOSED
+
+        # Abort recv() with a ConnectionClosed exception.
+        self.recv_messages.close()
+
+        # Acknowledge pings sent with the ack_on_close option.
+        #
+        # Commented out: Asserts on protcol.state is CLOSED
+        #
+        # self.acknowledge_pending_pings()
+
+    ClientConnection.close_socket = __custom_close_socket
diff --git a/testing/btest/cluster/generic/publish-any.zeek b/testing/btest/cluster/generic/publish-any.zeek
index 2078019f17..3866bd9812 100644
--- a/testing/btest/cluster/generic/publish-any.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/cluster/generic/publish-any.zeek
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ event send_any()
 	local e = Cluster::make_event(ping, i, type_name(val), val);
 	Cluster::publish_hrw(Cluster::worker_pool, cat(i), e);
 	++i;
-
-	schedule 0.05sec { send_any() };
 	}
 
 event pong(c: count, what: string, val: any)
@@ -66,10 +64,16 @@ event pong(c: count, what: string, val: any)
 	++pongs;
 	print "got pong", pongs, "with", c, what, type_name(val), val;
 
-	# We send 5 pings in 3 different variations and
-	# get two pongs for each.
+	# The manager sends 5 types of pings, in 3 different ways. The worker
+	# answers each ping in two ways, for a total of 30 expected pongs at the
+	# manager. Every batch of pings involves 6 pongs.
 	if ( pongs == 30 )
 		Cluster::publish(Cluster::worker_topic, finish);
+	else if ( pongs > 0 && pongs % 6  == 0 )
+		{
+		# Wait for a batch to complete before sending the next.
+		event send_any();
+		}
 	}
 
 event Cluster::node_up(name: string, id: string)
diff --git a/testing/btest/cluster/websocket/terminate-while-queuing.zeek b/testing/btest/cluster/websocket/terminate-while-queuing.zeek
index 59120eec56..54cc99b428 100644
--- a/testing/btest/cluster/websocket/terminate-while-queuing.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/cluster/websocket/terminate-while-queuing.zeek
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ import websockets.exceptions
 
 import wstest
 
+wstest.monkey_patch_close_socket()
+
 def run(ws_url):
     with (
         wstest.connect("ws1", ws_url) as tc1,