diff --git a/codespell_lib/_codespell.py b/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
index 5fc4a666a9..f7242824ca 100755
--- a/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
+++ b/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 USAGE = """
 \t%prog [OPTIONS] [file1 file2 ... fileN]
 """
-VERSION = '1.12.0.dev0'
+VERSION = '1.12.0'
 
 misspellings = {}
 ignore_words = set()