prepare RC1 of Commons Compress 1.12
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index 0433120..d9ce1e7 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE and ar, cpio,
 jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
 
-Release 1.12 (not released, yet)
+Release 1.12
 ------------
 
 Commons Compress 1.12 is the first version to require Java6 at
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4e5c837..9ef1e34 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-  <version>1.12-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.12</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Compress</name>
   <url>http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/</url>
   <!-- The description is not indented to make it look better in the release notes -->
diff --git a/src/site/site.xml b/src/site/site.xml
index 626d7d3..7bcbb67 100644
--- a/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/src/site/site.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
       <item name="Download"    href="/download_compress.cgi"/>
       <item name="Security Reports"    href="/security-reports.html"/>
       <item name="Wiki"        href="http://wiki.apache.org/commons/Compress"/>
+      <item name="Javadoc 1.12" href="javadocs/api-1.12/index.html"/>
       <item name="Javadoc 1.11" href="javadocs/api-1.11/index.html"/>
       <item name="Javadoc 1.10" href="javadocs/api-1.10/index.html"/>
       <item name="Javadoc 1.9" href="javadocs/api-1.9/index.html"/>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
index 4a3b23b..9e1500d 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
@@ -95,32 +95,32 @@
       </p>
     </subsection>
     </section>
-    <section name="Apache Commons Compress 1.11 ">
+    <section name="Apache Commons Compress 1.12 ">
       <subsection name="Binaries">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.11-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.12-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.zip">commons-compress-1.11-bin.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.11-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.zip">commons-compress-1.12-bin.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.12-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
       <subsection name="Source">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.11-src.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.12-src.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.zip">commons-compress-1.11-src.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.11-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.zip">commons-compress-1.12-src.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.12-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 3a5bfce..bde5915 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -51,23 +51,26 @@
         </section>
 
         <section name="Status">
-          <p>The current release is 1.11 and requires Java 5.</p>
+          <p>The current release is 1.12 and requires Java 6.</p>
 
           <p>Below we highlight some new features, for a full list
           of changes see the <a href="changes-report.html">Changes
           Report</a>.</p>
 
-          <subsection name="What's new in 1.11?">
+          <subsection name="What's new in 1.12?">
             <ul>
-              <li>Added read-only support for BZIP2 compression used
-              inside of ZIP archives.</li>
-              <li>Speed improvements in <code>SevenZFile</code></li>
-              <li>Various fixes and improvements for tar, ar, snappy
+              <li>Added support for the Snappy dialect used in iWork archives.</li>
+              <li><code>SevenZFile</code> throws an
+              IllegalStateException for empty entries.</li>
+              <li>BZip2CompressorOutputStream no longer tries to
+              finish the output stream in finalize. This is a breaking
+              change for code that relied on the finalizer.</li>
+              <li>Various fixes and improvements for tar, cpio
               and zip.</li>
             </ul>
           </subsection>
 
-          <!--subsection name="What's coming in 1.12?">
+          <!--subsection name="What's coming in 1.13?">
             <ul>
             </ul>
           </subsection-->
@@ -88,14 +91,14 @@
             by the <code>java.util.jar</code> package of the Java
             class library.  XZ and lzma support is provided by the public
             domain <a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html">XZ for
-            Java</a> library.  As of Commons Compress 1.11 support for
+            Java</a> library.  As of Commons Compress 1.12 support for
             the lzma, Z and Snappy formats is read-only.</p>
 
           <p>The ar, arj, cpio, dump, tar, 7z and zip formats are supported as
             archivers where the <a href="zip.html">zip</a>
             implementation provides capabilities that go beyond the
             features found in java.util.zip.  As of Commons Compress
-            1.11 support for the dump and arj formats is
+            1.12 support for the dump and arj formats is
             read-only - 7z can read most compressed and encrypted
             archives but only write unencrypted ones.  LZMA(2) support
             in 7z requires <a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html">XZ for