diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: markdown
 Type: Package
 Title: Render Markdown with 'commonmark'
-Version: 1.11
+Version: 1.11.1
 Authors@R: c(
    person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
    person("JJ", "Allaire", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 651936f..eaf65be 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# CHANGES IN markdown VERSION 1.12
+
+
 # CHANGES IN markdown VERSION 1.11
 
 - Verbatim code blocks of the form ```` ```{lang attr1 attr2 ...} ```` were not correctly rendered.