diff --git a/doc/PROFILES.md b/doc/PROFILES.md
index 0f09b3ba..e8268357 100644
--- a/doc/PROFILES.md
+++ b/doc/PROFILES.md
@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@ and clojure-complete that ships with the Leiningen. These can be
 overridden in projects, but this doesn't change the repl's behaviour
 outside of those projects. To do that, you should put a `:repl`
 profile in your `~/.lein/profiles.clj` file. For example, to replace
-the default tools.nrepl dependency with version 0.2.10, you can insert
+the default tools.nrepl dependency with version 0.2.12, you can insert
 the following profile:
 
 ```clj
-{:repl {:dependencies [[org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.10"]]}}
+{:repl {:dependencies [[org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.12"]]}}
 ```
 
-Now, all calls to `lein repl` will use version 0.2.10 of tools.nrepl,
+Now, all calls to `lein repl` will use version 0.2.12 of tools.nrepl,
 with the exception of the projects that has defined a `:repl` profile
 themselves.
 
diff --git a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
index 3454327e..91d59c67 100644
--- a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
+++ b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@
                 :test-selectors {:default (with-meta '(constantly true)
                                             {:displace true})}
                 ;; bump deps in leiningen's own project.clj with these
-                :dependencies '[^:displace [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.10"
+                :dependencies '[^:displace [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.12"
                                             :exclusions [org.clojure/clojure]]
                                 ^:displace [clojure-complete "0.2.3"
                                             :exclusions [org.clojure/clojure]]]
diff --git a/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/project.clj b/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/project.clj
index 61a1b45b..edd6f434 100755
--- a/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/project.clj
+++ b/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/project.clj
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
                                [lancet/lancet "1.0.1"]
                                [robert/hooke "1.1.2"]
                                [stencil/stencil "0.2.0"]
-                               [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.10"
+                               [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.12"
                                 :exclusions [[org.clojure/clojure]]]
                                [clojure-complete/clojure-complete "0.2.3"
                                 :exclusions [[org.clojure/clojure]]]],
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index e3476bef..a001d25d 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
                                jakarta-regexp]]
                  [reply "0.3.7" :exclusions [ring/ring-core
                                              org.thnetos/cd-client]]
-                 [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.10"]
+                 [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.12"]
                  [clojure-complete "0.2.3"]
                  ;; bump versions of various common transitive deps
                  [slingshot "0.10.3"]