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 ## DuckDB and DuckDB-Wasm
 
-DuckDB-Wasm is currently based on DuckDB v1.1.1.
+DuckDB-Wasm is currently based on DuckDB v1.2.0.
 
 Relevant differences:
 * HTTP stack is different between native and Wasm versions of DuckDB. Most relevant are: