chore: release 11.12.1

Author: github-actions[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  ".": "11.12.0",
+  ".": "11.12.1",
   "workspaces/arborist": "9.4.2",
   "workspaces/libnpmaccess": "10.0.3",
   "workspaces/libnpmdiff": "8.1.5",

AUTHORS

@@ -1001,3 +1001,4 @@ Lucas Gomes Santana <ls7128387@gmail.com>
 Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com>
 Mitch Denny <mitchdenny@outlook.com>
 Matt Van Horn <mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
+Daniel Foerster <pydsigner@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [11.12.1](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/v11.12.0...v11.12.1) (2026-03-23)
+### Documentation
+* [`d1ee8a5`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/d1ee8a524783e6ce33209fc48c83c89af5a5ccdf) [#9140](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/9140) Add note on relative path prefix for npm publish (#9140) (@pydsigner)
+
 ## [11.12.0](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/v11.11.1...v11.12.0) (2026-03-18)
 ### Features
 * [`8eff5fb`](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/8eff5fb31afc996c71c8f159defa324cb86dfc5a) [#9049](https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/9049) audit: add --include-attestations flag to output sigstore bundles (#9049) (@mitchdenny)

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "npm",
-  "version": "11.12.0",
+  "version": "11.12.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "npm",
-      "version": "11.12.0",
+      "version": "11.12.1",
       "bundleDependencies": [
         "@isaacs/string-locale-compare",
         "@npmcli/arborist",

package.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "11.12.0",
+  "version": "11.12.1",
   "name": "npm",
   "description": "a package manager for JavaScript",
   "workspaces": [