diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index ce163e83d..cc8e17643 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ from fontTools.misc.loggingTools import configLogger
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "4.12.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "4.12.1"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index df36633bf..f0e10462c 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+4.12.1 (released 2020-06-16)
+----------------------------
+
 - [_n_a_m_e] Fixed error in ``addMultilingualName`` with one-character names.
   Only attempt to recovered malformed UTF-16 data from a ``bytes`` string,
   not from unicode ``str`` (#1997, #1998).
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 2831c7a57..253ef8e33 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.12.1.dev0
+current_version = 4.12.1
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b1238da42..d73ba3192 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ if ext_modules:
 
 setup_params = dict(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="4.12.1.dev0",
+	version="4.12.1",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",