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@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Changelog
 Development version
 -------------------
 
-Version 0.12 (October xx, 2022)
+Version 0.12 (October 24, 2022)
 -------------------------------
 
 The highlight of this release is the support for Shapely 2.0. This makes it possible to
-test Shapely 2.0 (currently 2.0b1) alongside GeoPandas
+test Shapely 2.0 (currently 2.0b1) alongside GeoPandas.
 
 Note that if you also have PyGEOS installed, you need to set an environment variable
 (`USE_PYGEOS=0`) before importing geopandas to actually test Shapely 2.0 features instead of PyGEOS. See
@@ -16,22 +16,26 @@ https://geopandas.org/en/latest/getting_started/install.html#using-the-optional-
 for more details.
 
 New features and improvements:
-- ensure that distributed natural earth datasets are consistent version.  Upgraded 
-  **lowres** and **cities** to v5.1 (#2555)
 
-- Added ``normalize()`` method from shapely to GeoSeries/GeoDataframe (#2537)
-- Added ``make_valid()`` method from shapely to GeoSeries/GeoDataframe (#2539)
-- Add ``where`` filter to ``read_file`` (#2552)
+- Added ``normalize()`` method from shapely to GeoSeries/GeoDataframe (#2537).
+- Added ``make_valid()`` method from shapely to GeoSeries/GeoDataframe (#2539).
+- Added ``where`` filter to ``read_file`` (#2552).
+- Updated the distributed natural earth datasets (*naturalearth_lowres* and
+  *naturalearth_cities*) to version 5.1 (#2555).
 
 Deprecations and compatibility notes:
-- Accessing the `crs` of a `GeoDataFrame` without active geometry column was deprecated and this now raises an AttributeError (#2578).
 
-- resolve ``matplotlib.cm`` warning in ``.explore()`` (#2596)
+- Accessing the `crs` of a `GeoDataFrame` without active geometry column was deprecated
+  and this now raises an AttributeError (#2578).
+- Resolved colormap-related warning in ``.explore()`` for recent Matplotlib versions
+  (#2596).
 
 Bug fixes:
-- Fix cryptic error message in ``geopandas.clip()`` when clipping with an empty geometry (#2589)
-- Accessing `gdf.geometry` where the active geometry column is missing, and a column named `"geometry"` is present 
-  will now raise an `AttributeError`, rather than returning `gdf["geometry"]` (#2575) 
+
+- Fix cryptic error message in ``geopandas.clip()`` when clipping with an empty geometry (#2589).
+- Accessing `gdf.geometry` where the active geometry column is missing, and a column
+  named `"geometry"` is present will now raise an `AttributeError`, rather than
+  returning `gdf["geometry"]` (#2575).
 - Combining GeoSeries/GeoDataFrames with ``pandas.concat`` will no longer silently
   override CRS information if not all inputs have the same CRS (#2056).