diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b5449aee..ef8403b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 12.0.6
+ - [DOC] Remove outdated note about retry policy behaviour change that occurred in 2017 [#1215](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch/pull/1215)
+
 ## 12.0.5
  - [DOC] Fix link to Logstash DLQ docs [#1214](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch/pull/1214)
 
diff --git a/docs/index.asciidoc b/docs/index.asciidoc
index 415ab77b..281f946d 100644
--- a/docs/index.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/index.asciidoc
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ Example:
 
 ==== Retry policy
 
-The retry policy has changed significantly in the 8.1.1 release.
 This plugin uses the Elasticsearch bulk API to optimize its imports into Elasticsearch. These requests may experience
 either partial or total failures. The bulk API sends batches of requests to an HTTP endpoint. Error codes for the HTTP
 request are handled differently than error codes for individual documents.
diff --git a/logstash-output-elasticsearch.gemspec b/logstash-output-elasticsearch.gemspec
index 8e65ca13..072f25d0 100644
--- a/logstash-output-elasticsearch.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-output-elasticsearch.gemspec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name            = 'logstash-output-elasticsearch'
-  s.version         = '12.0.5'
+  s.version         = '12.0.6'
   s.licenses        = ['apache-2.0']
   s.summary         = "Stores logs in Elasticsearch"
   s.description     = "This gem is a Logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/logstash-plugin install gemname. This gem is not a stand-alone program"