diff --git a/bento.info b/bento.info
index f9e9d2c4..dbb24169 100644
--- a/bento.info
+++ b/bento.info
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: scikit-image
-Version: 0.12.0
+Version: 0.12.1
 Summary: Image processing routines for SciPy
 Url: http://scikit-image.org
 DownloadUrl: http://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image
diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py
index 595dd99d..7a8227aa 100644
--- a/skimage/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/__init__.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ import sys
 pkg_dir = osp.abspath(osp.dirname(__file__))
 data_dir = osp.join(pkg_dir, 'data')
 
-__version__ = '0.12.0'
+__version__ = '0.12.1'
 
 try:
     imp.find_module('nose')