diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 0d9d2f0a71..64b2f10f56 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# Version 2.12.1 - 2024-08-13
+
+## Bugfixes
+- [PICARD-2914](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2914) - macOS: Crash when opening options with Spanish UI
+- [PICARD-2939](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2939) - Crash when loading release with genre filters resulting in empty genre list
+- [PICARD-2940](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2940) - Possible bug with locking in `Metadata.__iter__`
+- [PICARD-2946](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2946) - Fix display length value in AppStream metadata
+
+
 # Version 2.12 - 2024-06-27
 
 ## Bugfixes
diff --git a/picard/__init__.py b/picard/__init__.py
index f7ca1199ec..87ac7689de 100644
--- a/picard/__init__.py
+++ b/picard/__init__.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 PICARD_DISPLAY_NAME = "MusicBrainz Picard"
 PICARD_APP_ID = "org.musicbrainz.Picard"
 PICARD_DESKTOP_NAME = PICARD_APP_ID + ".desktop"
-PICARD_VERSION = Version(2, 12, 1, 'dev', 1)
+PICARD_VERSION = Version(2, 12, 1, 'final', 0)
 
 
 # optional build version