diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 44a44774..6670ad6f 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 2.1.1
+current_version = 2.1.2
 commit = True
 tag = True
 tag_name = v{new_version}
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 616b7cfd..3846a427 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 w3lib release notes
 ===================
 
-2.1.2 (YYYY-MM-DD)
+2.1.2 (2023-08-03)
 ------------------
 
 - Fix test failures on Python 3.11.4+ (#212, #213).
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 4f053915..926b012c 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.1.1'
+release = '2.1.2'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '.'.join(release.split('.')[:2])
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d25877f3..61065cb3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="w3lib",
-    version="2.1.1",
+    version="2.1.2",
     license="BSD",
     description="Library of web-related functions",
     author="Scrapy project",
diff --git a/w3lib/__init__.py b/w3lib/__init__.py
index 6cb9f31a..dd7a1fc7 100644
--- a/w3lib/__init__.py
+++ b/w3lib/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = "2.1.1"
+__version__ = "2.1.2"
 version_info = tuple(int(v) if v.isdigit() else v for v in __version__.split("."))