diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 13edfdad..98302812 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: gargle
 Title: Utilities for Working with Google APIs
-Version: 1.2.0.9002
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jennifer", "Bryan", , "jenny@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6983-2759")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# gargle (development version)
+# gargle 1.2.1
 
 * Help files below `man/` have been re-generated, so that they give rise to valid HTML5. (This is the impetus for this release, to keep the package safely on CRAN.)