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 - "You miss 100 percent of the chances you don't take. — Wayne Gretzky" — Michael Scott
 
+## 8.12.0-alpha.0
+
+This pre-release includes an `rrweb` [version bump](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/pull/12478) that
+includes quite a few upstream changes. We will test this on Sentry before a release.
+
 ## 8.11.0
 
 ### Important Changes