diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 61db742..825544f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 # bunyan Changelog
 
-## bunyan 0.11.4 (not yet released)
+## bunyan 0.12.0 (not yet released)
 
-(nothing yet)
+- [pull #32] `bunyan -o short` for more concise output (by Dave Pacheco). E.g.:
+
+        22:56:52.856Z  INFO myservice: My message
+
+  instead of:
+
+        [2012-02-08T22:56:52.856Z]  INFO: myservice/123 on example.com: My message
 
 
 ## bunyan 0.11.3
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 276358b..cbf7572 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ all:
 # Ensure all version-carrying files have the same version.
 .PHONY: versioncheck
 versioncheck:
+	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^## ' CHANGES.md | head -1 | awk '{print $$3}'` ]]
 	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^var VERSION' bin/bunyan | awk -F'"' '{print $$2}'` ]]
 	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^var VERSION' lib/bunyan.js | awk -F"'" '{print $$2}'` ]]
 	@echo Version check ok.
diff --git a/bin/bunyan b/bin/bunyan
index 8292cc4..cc4a6b4 100755
--- a/bin/bunyan
+++ b/bin/bunyan
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // See <https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan>.
 //
 
-var VERSION = "0.11.4";
+var VERSION = "0.12.0";
 
 var util = require('util');
 var pathlib = require('path');
diff --git a/lib/bunyan.js b/lib/bunyan.js
index 63678a0..4d4f174 100644
--- a/lib/bunyan.js
+++ b/lib/bunyan.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * The bunyan logging library for node.js.
  */
 
-var VERSION = '0.11.4';
+var VERSION = '0.12.0';
 
 // Bunyan log format version. This becomes the 'v' field on all log records.
 // `0` is until I release a version '1.0.0' of node-bunyan. Thereafter,
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ecd751c..0d45cc8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "bunyan",
-  "version": "0.11.4",
+  "version": "0.12.0",
   "description": "a JSON Logger library for node.js services",
   "author": "Trent Mick <trentm@gmail.com> (http://trentm.com)",
   "main": "./lib/bunyan.js",