diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2c064c62b3..6d1f7c1c4c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Note that ``PHAB_ID=#`` and ``RB_ID=#`` correspond to associated messages in com
 Unreleased
 ----------
 
+22.12.0
+-------
+
 New Features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3f46da943f..a4ea5177b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Twitter Util
 
-[![Build Status](https://github.com/twitter/util/workflows/continuous%20integration/badge.svg?branch=develop)](https://github.com/twitter/util/actions?query=workflow%3A%22continuous+integration%22+branch%3Adevelop)
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/twitter/util/workflows/continuous%20integration/badge.svg?branch=release)](https://github.com/twitter/util/actions?query=workflow%3A%22continuous+integration%22+branch%3Arelease)
 [![Project status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-active-brightgreen.svg)](#status)
 [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/twitter/finagle.svg)](https://gitter.im/twitter/finagle?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
 [![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.twitter/util-core_2.12/badge.svg)](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.twitter/util-core_2.12)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ for more details about how to contribute.
 An example SBT dependency string for the `util-core` library would look like this:
 
 ```scala
-val utilCore = "com.twitter" %% "util-core" % "22.7.0"
+val utilCore = "com.twitter" %% "util-core" % "22.12.0"
 ```
 
 # Units
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index b9abac63ea..853d4a76bd 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Global / onChangedBuildSource := ReloadOnSourceChanges
 Global / excludeLintKeys += scalacOptions // might be actually unused in util-doc module but not sure
 
 // All Twitter library releases are date versioned as YY.MM.patch
-val releaseVersion = "22.10.0-SNAPSHOT"
+val releaseVersion = "22.12.0"
 
 val slf4jVersion = "1.7.30"
 val jacksonVersion = "2.14.1"