diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3b9218902..f357cd9b1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: dtplyr
 Title: Data Table Back-End for 'dplyr'
-Version: 1.2.0.9000
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("cre", "aut")),
     person("Maximilian", "Girlich", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8fa740ee4..380d66db6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# dtplyr (development version)
+# dtplyr 1.2.1
 
 * Fix for upcoming rlang release.