diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: readr
 Title: Read Rectangular Text Data
-Version: 2.1.1.9000
+Version: 2.1.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = "aut"),
     person("Jim", "Hester", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# readr (development version)
+# readr 2.1.2
 
 * `read_table()`, `read_log()`, and `read_delim_chunked()` (and friends) gain the `show_col_types` argument found elsewhere. All `read_*()` functions now respect the `show_col_types` argument or option, even when using the first edition parsing engine (#1331).