diff --git a/docs/release-notes/changelog.rst b/docs/release-notes/changelog.rst
index 67023148a3..c03374a813 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes/changelog.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,184 @@
 2.x Changelog
 =============
 
+.. changelog:: 2.12.0
+    :date: 2024-09-21
+
+    .. change:: Fix overzealous warning for greedy middleware ``exclude`` pattern
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3712
+
+        Fix a bug introduced in ``2.11.0`` (https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/pull/3700),
+        where the added warning for a greedy pattern use for the middleware ``exclude``
+        parameter was itself greedy, and would warn for non-greedy patterns, e.g.
+        ``^/$``.
+
+    .. change:: Fix dangling coroutines in request extraction handling cleanup
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3735
+        :issue: 3734
+
+        Fix a bug where, when a required header parameter was defined for a request that
+        also expects a request body, failing to provide the header resulted in a
+        :exc:`RuntimeWarning`.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            @post()
+            async def handler(data: str, secret: Annotated[str, Parameter(header="x-secret")]) -> None:
+                return None
+
+        If the ``x-secret`` header was not provided, warning like this would be seen:
+
+        .. code-block::
+
+            RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'json_extractor' was never awaited
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Correctly handle ``type`` keyword
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3715
+        :issue: 3714
+
+        Fix a bug where a type alias created with the ``type`` keyword would create an
+        empty OpenAPI schema entry for that parameter
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Ensure valid schema keys
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3635
+        :issue: 3630
+
+        Ensure that generated schema component keys are always valid according to
+        `§ 4.8.7.1 <https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html#fixed-fields-5>`_ of the
+        OpenAPI specification.
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Correctly handle ``msgspec.Struct`` tagged unions
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3742
+        :issue: 3659
+
+        Fix a bug where the OpenAPI schema would not include the struct fields
+        implicitly generated by msgspec for its
+        `tagged union <https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/structs.html#tagged-unions>`_
+        support.
+
+        The tag field of the struct will now be added as a ``const`` of the appropriate
+        type to the schema.
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Fix Pydantic 1 constrained string with default factory
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3721
+        :issue: 3710
+
+        Fix a bug where using a Pydantic model with a ``default_factory`` set for a
+        constrained string field would raise a :exc:`SerializationException`.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            class Model(BaseModel):
+                field: str = Field(default_factory=str, max_length=600)
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI/DTO: Fix missing Pydantic 2 computed fields
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3721
+        :issue: 3656
+
+        Fix a bug that would lead to Pydantic computed fields to be ignored during
+        schema generation when the model was using a
+        :class:`~litestar.contrib.pydantic.PydanticDTO`.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+            :caption: Only the ``foo`` field would be included in the schema
+
+            class MyModel(BaseModel):
+                foo: int
+
+                @computed_field
+                def bar(self) -> int:
+                    return 123
+
+            @get(path="/", return_dto=PydanticDTO[MyModel])
+            async def test() -> MyModel:
+                return MyModel.model_validate({"foo": 1})
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Fix Pydantic ``json_schema_extra`` overrides only being merged partially
+        :type: bugfix
+        :pr: 3721
+        :issue: 3656
+
+        Fix a bug where ``json_schema_extra`` were not reliably extracted from Pydantic
+        models and included in the OpenAPI schema.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+            :caption: Only the title set directly on the field would be used for the schema
+
+            class Model(pydantic.BaseModel):
+                with_title: str = pydantic.Field(title="new_title")
+                with_extra_title: str = pydantic.Field(json_schema_extra={"title": "more_new_title"})
+
+
+            @get("/example")
+            async def example_route() -> Model:
+                return Model(with_title="1", with_extra_title="2")
+
+
+    .. change:: Support strings in ``media_type`` for ``ResponseSpec``
+        :type: feature
+        :pr: 3729
+        :issue: 3728
+
+        Accept strings for the ``media_type`` parameter of :class:`~litestar.openapi.datastructures.ResponseSpec`,
+        making it behave the same way as :paramref:`~litestar.response.Response.media_type`.
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Allow customizing schema component keys
+        :type: feature
+        :pr: 3738
+
+        Allow customizing the schema key used for a component in the OpenAPI schema.
+        The supplied keys are enforced to be unique, and it is checked that they won't
+        be reused across different types.
+
+        The keys can be set with the newly introduced ``schema_component_key`` parameter,
+        which is available on :class:`~litestar.params.KwargDefinition`,
+        :func:`~litestar.params.Body` and :func:`~litestar.params.Parameter`.
+
+        .. code-block:: python
+            :caption: Two components will be generated: ``Data`` and ``not_data``
+
+            @dataclass
+            class Data:
+                pass
+
+            @post("/")
+            def handler(
+                data: Annotated[Data, Parameter(schema_component_key="not_data")],
+            ) -> Data:
+                return Data()
+
+            @get("/")
+            def handler_2() -> Annotated[Data, Parameter(schema_component_key="not_data")]:
+                return Data()
+
+    .. change:: Raise exception when body parameter is annotated with non-bytes type
+        :type: feature
+        :pr: 3740
+
+        Add an informative error message to help avoid the common mistake of attempting
+        to use the ``body`` parameter to receive validated / structured data by
+        annotating it with a type such as ``list[str]``, instead of ``bytes``.
+
+
+    .. change:: OpenAPI: Default to ``latest`` scalar version
+        :type: feature
+        :pr: 3747
+
+        Change the default version of the scalar OpenAPI renderer to ``latest``
+
+
 .. changelog:: 2.11.0
     :date: 2024-08-27
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 78a34ef862..0a52cefcbe 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ maintainers = [
 name = "litestar"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8,<4.0"
-version = "2.11.0"
+version = "2.12.0"
 
 [project.urls]
 Blog = "https://blog.litestar.dev"
diff --git a/tools/prepare_release.py b/tools/prepare_release.py
index c0cee01765..53018a6fa6 100644
--- a/tools/prepare_release.py
+++ b/tools/prepare_release.py
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ def build_changelog_entry(release_info: ReleaseInfo, interactive: bool = False)
         for prs in release_info.pull_requests.values():
             for pr in prs:
                 cc_type = pr.cc_type
-                if cc_type in change_types or (interactive and click.confirm(f"Ignore PR #{pr.number} {pr.title!r}?")):
+                if cc_type in change_types or (interactive and click.confirm(f"Include PR #{pr.number} {pr.title!r}?")):
                     doc.add_change(pr)
                 else:
                     click.secho(f"Ignoring change with type {cc_type}", fg="yellow")