diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d844cb58..2c390d2e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-v0.8.12 YYYY-YY-YY  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+v0.8.12 2007-10-06  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	+ Some changes to character set recoding.
 	+ Rewrite SSL connection/handshake code.	
 	+ Remove support for glib 1.x.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b14f6066..a8644151 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.12-rc1)
+AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.12)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src])
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)