diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: ggdag
 Title: Analyze and Create Elegant Directed Acyclic Graphs
-Version: 0.2.11.9000
+Version: 0.2.12
 Authors@R: 
     person("Malcolm", "Barrett", , "malcolmbarrett@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0299-5825"))
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-# ggdag (development version)
+# ggdag 0.2.12
 * Patch tests for false positives in new ggraph version
 
 # ggdag 0.2.11