Release 3.12.0
diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index a8a4f41..2fd6d93 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "3.11.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "3.12.0"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index fe3f271..e5f05a2 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+3.12.0 (released 2017-05-17)
+----------------------------
+
 - [cffLib.specializer] Added new ``specializer`` module to optimize CFF
   charstrings, used by the T2CharStringPen (#948).
 - [varLib.mutator] Sort glyphs by component depth before calculating composite
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 42ba2e7..1d50582 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 3.11.1.dev0
+current_version = 3.12.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 24c383c..0c2e76e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="3.11.1.dev0",
+	version="3.12.0",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",