diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index cc6290f4..618444dc 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: rtweet
 Title: Collecting Twitter Data
-Version: 1.1.0.9011
+Version: 1.2.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Michael W.", "Kearney", , "kearneymw@missouri.edu", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0730-4694")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e2ae22e8..2844bb5a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# rtweet (development version)
+# rtweet 1.2.0
 
 ## Authentication changes
 
diff --git a/_pkgdown.yml b/_pkgdown.yml
index db8b43ab..5b1fcb9b 100644
--- a/_pkgdown.yml
+++ b/_pkgdown.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ news:
  - text: "rtweet 1.0.0"
    href: https://ropensci.org/blog/2022/07/21/rtweet-1-0-0/
  - text: "rtweet 1.2.0"
-   href: https://llrs.dev/tags/rtweet/
+   href: https://llrs.dev/post/2023/03/20/rtweet-starts-using-api-v2/
 
 
 authors: