prepare for 2.12.1 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.12.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.12.1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformats-text</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Modules:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.12.1 (08-Jan-2021)
+
+No changes since 2.12.0
+
 2.12.0 (29-Nov-2020)
 
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