diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.md b/docs/src/manpage.md
index f85e6bd573..032922f9f8 100644
--- a/docs/src/manpage.md
+++ b/docs/src/manpage.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This is simply a copy of what you should see on running `man mlr` at a command p
        insertion-ordered hash map.  This encompasses a variety of data
        formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
        (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
-       manpage documents mlr 6.11.0-dev.
+       manpage documents mlr 6.12.0.
 
 1mEXAMPLES0m
        mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.txt b/docs/src/manpage.txt
index 5f16957013..96de3b2701 100644
--- a/docs/src/manpage.txt
+++ b/docs/src/manpage.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
        insertion-ordered hash map.  This encompasses a variety of data
        formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
        (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
-       manpage documents mlr 6.11.0-dev.
+       manpage documents mlr 6.12.0.
 
 1mEXAMPLES0m
        mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
diff --git a/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md b/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md
index 6663f1c18a..668dcc3673 100644
--- a/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md
+++ b/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md
@@ -274,8 +274,6 @@ array will have [null-gaps](reference-main-arrays.md) in it:
     "value": 54
   }
 ]
-[
-]
 </pre>
 
 You can index `@records` by `@count` rather than `NR` to get a contiguous array:
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md
index 921a02913a..1b11734445 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ However, in Miller 6 it has optional use for map traversal. Example:
 <pre class="pre-non-highlight-in-pair">
 bar.baz
 bar.baz
-[
-]
 </pre>
 
 This also works on the left-hand sides of assignment statements:
@@ -157,8 +155,6 @@ A few caveats:
 </pre>
 <pre class="pre-non-highlight-in-pair">
 6989
-[
-]
 </pre>
 
 * However (awkwardly), if you want to use `.` for map-traversal as well as string-concatenation in the same statement, you'll need to insert parentheses, as the default associativity is left-to-right:
@@ -170,8 +166,6 @@ A few caveats:
 </pre>
 <pre class="pre-non-highlight-in-pair">
 (error)
-[
-]
 </pre>
 
 <pre class="pre-highlight-in-pair">
@@ -181,6 +175,4 @@ A few caveats:
 </pre>
 <pre class="pre-non-highlight-in-pair">
 GET -- api/check
-[
-]
 </pre>
diff --git a/man/manpage.txt b/man/manpage.txt
index 5f16957013..96de3b2701 100644
--- a/man/manpage.txt
+++ b/man/manpage.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
        insertion-ordered hash map.  This encompasses a variety of data
        formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
        (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
-       manpage documents mlr 6.11.0-dev.
+       manpage documents mlr 6.12.0.
 
 1mEXAMPLES0m
        mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
diff --git a/man/mlr.1 b/man/mlr.1
index 9c78a653a1..3d6bb2666b 100644
--- a/man/mlr.1
+++ b/man/mlr.1
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the
 array, then Miller's natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map.
 This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the
 familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.  (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as
-a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.11.0-dev.
+a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.12.0.
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 .sp
 
diff --git a/miller.spec b/miller.spec
index 2ac4f62654..325dbe988d 100644
--- a/miller.spec
+++ b/miller.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: Name-indexed data processing tool
 Name: miller
-Version: 6.11.0
+Version: 6.12.0
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Source: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/download/%{version}/miller-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ make install
 %{_mandir}/man1/mlr.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 16 2024 John Kerl <kerl.john.r@gmail.com> - 6.12.0-1
+- 6.12.0 release
+
 * Tue Jan 23 2024 John Kerl <kerl.john.r@gmail.com> - 6.11.0-1
 - 6.11.0 release
 
diff --git a/pkg/version/version.go b/pkg/version/version.go
index f3d43c46e9..ffce1a19af 100644
--- a/pkg/version/version.go
+++ b/pkg/version/version.go
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ package version
 // Nominally things like "6.0.0" for a release, then "6.0.0-dev" in between.
 // This makes it clear that a given build is on the main dev branch, not a
 // particular snapshot tag.
-var STRING string = "6.11.0-dev"
+var STRING string = "6.12.0"