diff --git a/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in b/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
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@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
   - [CLI guideline](contributing/cli-guideline.md)
 - [Release Notes](release-notes/release-notes.md)
   - [Release X.Y (202?-??-??)](release-notes/rl-next.md)
+  - [Release 2.12 (2022-12-06)](release-notes/rl-2.12.md)
   - [Release 2.11 (2022-08-25)](release-notes/rl-2.11.md)
   - [Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)](release-notes/rl-2.10.md)
   - [Release 2.9 (2022-05-30)](release-notes/rl-2.9.md)
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.12.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.12.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Release 2.12 (2022-12-06)
+
+* On Linux, Nix can now run builds in a user namespace where they run
+  as root (UID 0) and have 65,536 UIDs available.
+  <!-- FIXME: move this to its own section about system features -->
+  This is primarily useful for running containers such as `systemd-nspawn`
+  inside a Nix build. For an example, see [`tests/systemd-nspawn/nix`][nspawn].
+
+  [nspawn]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/67bcb99700a0da1395fa063d7c6586740b304598/tests/systemd-nspawn.nix.
+
+  A build can enable this by setting the derivation attribute:
+
+  ```
+  requiredSystemFeatures = [ "uid-range" ];
+  ```
+
+  The `uid-range` [system feature] requires the [`auto-allocate-uids`]
+  setting to be enabled.
+
+  [system feature]: (../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-system-features)
+
+* Nix can now automatically pick UIDs for builds, removing the need to
+  create `nixbld*` user accounts. See [`auto-allocate-uids`].
+
+  [`auto-allocate-uids`]: (../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-auto-allocate-uids)
+
+* On Linux, Nix has experimental support for running builds inside a
+  cgroup. See
+  [`use-cgroups`](../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-use-cgroups).
+
+* `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now accepts an additional argument `impure` which
+  defaults to `false`.  If it is set to `true`, the `hash` and `sha256`
+  arguments will be ignored and the resulting derivation will have
+  `__impure` set to `true`, making it an impure derivation.
+
+* If `builtins.readFile` is called on a file with context, then only
+  the parts of the context that appear in the content of the file are
+  retained.  This avoids a lot of spurious errors where strings end up
+  having a context just because they are read from a store path
+  ([#7260](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7260)).
+
+* `nix build --json` now prints some statistics about top-level
+  derivations, such as CPU statistics when cgroups are enabled.
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
index bf51aa1f7..78ae99f4b 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
@@ -1,48 +1,2 @@
 # Release X.Y (202?-??-??)
 
-* `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now accepts an additional argument `impure` which
-  defaults to `false`.  If it is set to `true`, the `hash` and `sha256`
-  arguments will be ignored and the resulting derivation will have
-  `__impure` set to `true`, making it an impure derivation.
-
-* If `builtins.readFile` is called on a file with context, then only the parts
-  of that context that appear in the content of the file are retained.
-  This avoids a lot of spurious errors where some benign strings end-up having
-  a context just because they are read from a store path
-  ([#7260](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7260)).
-
-* Nix can now automatically pick UIDs for builds, removing the need to
-  create `nixbld*` user accounts.
-
-  See [`auto-allocate-uids`].
-
-  [`auto-allocate-uids`]: (../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-auto-allocate-uids)
-
-* On Linux, Nix can now run builds in a user namespace where the build
-  runs as root (UID 0) and has 65,536 UIDs available.
-
-  <!-- FIXME: move this to its own section about system features -->
-
-  This is primarily useful for running containers such as `systemd-nspawn`
-  inside a Nix build. For an example, see [`tests/systemd-nspawn/nix`][nspawn].
-
-  [nspawn]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/67bcb99700a0da1395fa063d7c6586740b304598/tests/systemd-nspawn.nix.
-
-  A build can enable this by by setting the derivation attribute:
-
-  ```
-  requiredSystemFeatures = [ "uid-range" ];
-  ```
-
-  The `uid-range` [system feature] requires the [`auto-allocate-uids`]
-  setting to be enabled.
-
-  [system feature]: (../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-system-features),
-
-* On Linux, Nix has experimental support for running builds inside a
-  cgroup.
-
-  See [`use-cgroups`](../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-use-cgroups).
-
-* `nix build --json` now prints some statistics about top-level
-  derivations, such as CPU statistics when cgroups are enabled.