From 344e758ba30b176dd47fd60a237428feb0136099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:19:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] 2.12.6 release

---
 pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 release-notes/VERSION-2.x | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index be2d53ec2e..01378faf4c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.12.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.12.6</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index a61ba2ac14..9a17d4ed1b 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.12.6 (not yet released)
+2.12.6 (15-Dec-2021)
 
 #713: Incorrect parsing of single-quoted surrounded String values containing double quotes
  (reported by wcarmon@github)

From 36faebcd32f6007cc553dd248b518e68da4ecc7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:20:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] [maven-release-plugin] prepare release
 jackson-core-2.12.6

---
 pom.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 01378faf4c..b5cb0a7e2f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
   <name>Jackson-core</name>
-  <version>2.12.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.12.6</version>
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
   <description>Core Jackson processing abstractions (aka Streaming API), implementation for JSON</description>
   <licenses>
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-core.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-core.git</developerConnection>
     <url>http://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core</url>    
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    <tag>jackson-core-2.12.6</tag>
   </scm>
 
   <properties>

From 5622783243b4af15455a3d6479d5f175a66bc01d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:20:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development
 iteration

---
 pom.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b5cb0a7e2f..197847ce20 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
   <name>Jackson-core</name>
-  <version>2.12.6</version>
+  <version>2.12.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
   <description>Core Jackson processing abstractions (aka Streaming API), implementation for JSON</description>
   <licenses>
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-core.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:FasterXML/jackson-core.git</developerConnection>
     <url>http://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core</url>    
-    <tag>jackson-core-2.12.6</tag>
+    <tag>HEAD</tag>
   </scm>
 
   <properties>