diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index b13b071bd6c..32abdcea497 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
     Serving.
 *   Keras models now support evaluating with a `tf.data.Dataset`.
 *   TensorFlow binaries are built with XLA support linked in by default.
+*   Ignite Dataset added to contrib/ignite that allows to work with Apache
+    Ignite.
 
 ## Bug Fixes and Other Changes
 
diff --git a/tensorflow/core/public/version.h b/tensorflow/core/public/version.h
index 07eeeb4f032..a55fe17dd5f 100644
--- a/tensorflow/core/public/version.h
+++ b/tensorflow/core/public/version.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 // TF_VERSION_SUFFIX is non-empty for pre-releases (e.g. "-alpha", "-alpha.1",
 // "-beta", "-rc", "-rc.1")
-#define TF_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc0"
+#define TF_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
 
 #define TF_STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define TF_STR(x) TF_STR_HELPER(x)
diff --git a/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py b/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py
index f4b27fed731..a3da276f893 100644
--- a/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py
+++ b/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ DOCLINES = __doc__.split('\n')
 # This version string is semver compatible, but incompatible with pip.
 # For pip, we will remove all '-' characters from this string, and use the
 # result for pip.
-_VERSION = '1.12.0-rc0'
+_VERSION = '1.12.0'
 
 REQUIRED_PACKAGES = [
     'absl-py >= 0.1.6',