diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index fc97316e..c2012186 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: scales
 Title: Scale Functions for Visualization
-Version: 1.2.0.9000
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Dana", "Seidel", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8ce08c01..9c783904 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# scales (development version)
+# scales 1.2.1
 
 * Re-document to fix HTML issues in `.Rd`.