diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c203c7a..e1201df 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: Signac
 Title: Analysis of Single-Cell Chromatin Data
-Version: 1.12.9001
+Version: 1.12.0
 Date: 2023-11-06
 Authors@R: c(
   person(given = 'Tim', family = 'Stuart', email = 'stuartt@gis.a-star.edu.sg', role = c('aut', 'cre'), comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0002-3044-0897')),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Unreleased
+# 1.12.0
 
 Bug fixes: