diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 7016bd6..3af1b1d 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "BlockFactorizations"
 uuid = "5c499583-5bfe-4591-9b59-c1e192d48697"
 authors = ["Sebastian Ament <sebastianeament@gmail.com>"]
-version = "1.2.1"
+version = "1.2.2"
 
 [deps]
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
diff --git a/src/BlockFactorizations.jl b/src/BlockFactorizations.jl
index 5ccda8b..7bebe9d 100644
--- a/src/BlockFactorizations.jl
+++ b/src/BlockFactorizations.jl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const AbstractMatOrFacOrUni{T} = Union{AbstractMatrix{T}, Factorization{T}, Unif
 const AbstractVecOfVec{T} = AbstractVector{<:AbstractVector{T}}
 const AbstractVecOfVecOrMat{T} = AbstractVector{<:AbstractVecOrMat{T}}
 
-export BlockFactorization
+export BlockFactorization, BlockDiagonalFactorization
 
 include("block.jl")
 
diff --git a/src/block.jl b/src/block.jl
index 27fe6d0..8e76412 100644
--- a/src/block.jl
+++ b/src/block.jl
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ function BlockFactorization(A::AbstractMatrix, nindices, mindices)
     BlockFactorization{T, typeof(A), typeof(nindices), typeof(mindices)}(A, nindices, mindices)
 end
 const StridedBlockFactorization = BlockFactorization{<:Any, <:Any, <:StepRange, <:StepRange}
+const BlockDiagonalFactorization = BlockFactorization{<:Any, <:Diagonal, <:Any, <:Any}
 
 # calculates the element type of the BlockFactorization with blocks given by A
 block_eltype(A::AbstractMatrix{<:Number}) = eltype(A)
diff --git a/test/block.jl b/test/block.jl
index 368e9e3..b5b61f4 100644
--- a/test/block.jl
+++ b/test/block.jl
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ using Test
             @test eltype(A) == Any
             B = BlockFactorization(A)
             @test eltype(B) == elty_A
+
+            d, n = 2, 3
+            A = Diagonal([randn(elty_A, d, d) for _ in 1:n])
+            B = BlockFactorization(A)
+            @test B isa BlockDiagonalFactorization
         end
     end
 end