diff --git a/.meta/dietpi-survey_report b/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
index 4a9d50e780..e1a335bf41 100755
--- a/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
+++ b/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
@@ -756,13 +756,15 @@ shopt -s extglob
 	unset -v 'aSOFTWARE_NAME9_10[127]' # NeoVim
 
 	aSOFTWARE_NAME9_11=()
-	for i in "${!aSOFTWARE_NAME9_10[@]}"
+	aSOFTWARE_NAME9_12=()
+	for i in "${!aSOFTWARE_NAME9_11[@]}"
 	do
 		aSOFTWARE_NAME9_11[i]=${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_10[i]}
+		aSOFTWARE_NAME9_12[i]=${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_11[i]}
 	done
 
 	# Pre-create software counter array so that we can see also software (available in newest version) with 0 installs
-	for i in "${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_11[@]}"
+	for i in "${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_12[@]}"
 	do
 		aSOFTWARE[$i]=0
 	done
diff --git a/.update/version b/.update/version
index 50a7a7d2ee..01b9e9af66 100644
--- a/.update/version
+++ b/.update/version
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 # Available DietPi version
 G_REMOTE_VERSION_CORE=9
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=11
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=2
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=12
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=-1
 # Minimum DietPi version to allow update
 G_MIN_VERSION_CORE=7
 G_MIN_VERSION_SUB=0
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 176e73dbf7..d95f4a52fc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+v9.12
+(2025-03-22)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+As always, many smaller code performance and stability improvements, visual and spelling fixes have been done, too much to list all of them here. Check out all code changes of this release on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/ADDME
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 v9.11
 (2025-02-23)
 
diff --git a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
index 914e10f2e0..263fbf7402 100644
--- a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
+++ b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
 	[[ -f '/boot/dietpi/.version' ]] && . /boot/dietpi/.version
 	# - Assign defaults/code version as fallback
 	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=11
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=12
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=-1
 	[[ $G_GITBRANCH ]] || G_GITBRANCH='master'
 	[[ $G_GITOWNER ]] || G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
 	# - Save current version and Git branch