DOC: 1.2.1 release date (pandas-dev#39233)

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.1.rst

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 .. _whatsnew_121:
 
-What's new in 1.2.1 (January ??, 2021)
+What's new in 1.2.1 (January 18, 2021)
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 These are the changes in pandas 1.2.1. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Fixed regressions
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.groupby` when aggregating an :class:`ExtensionDType` that could fail for non-numeric values (:issue:`38980`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.loc.__setitem__` raising ``KeyError`` with :class:`MultiIndex` and list-like columns indexer enlarging :class:`DataFrame` (:issue:`39147`)
 - Fixed regression in comparisons between ``NaT`` and ``datetime.date`` objects incorrectly returning ``True`` (:issue:`39151`)
+- Fixed regression in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_index_equal` raising ``TypeError`` with ``check_order=False`` when :class:`Index` has mixed dtype (:issue:`39168`)
 
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@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@ Bug fixes
 
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` with ``float_precision="high"`` caused segfault or wrong parsing of long exponent strings. This resulted in a regression in some cases as the default for ``float_precision`` was changed in pandas 1.2.0 (:issue:`38753`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` not closing an opened file handle when a ``csv.Error`` or ``UnicodeDecodeError`` occurred while initializing (:issue:`39024`)
-- Bug in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_index_equal` raising ``TypeError`` with ``check_order=False`` when :class:`Index` has mixed dtype (:issue:`39168`)
 
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@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ Other
 - Bumped minimum pymysql version to 0.8.1 to avoid test failures (:issue:`38344`)
 - Fixed build failure on MacOS 11 in Python 3.9.1 (:issue:`38766`)
 - Added reference to backwards incompatible ``check_freq`` arg of :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` and :func:`testing.assert_series_equal` in :ref:`pandas 1.1.0 whats new <whatsnew_110.api_breaking.testing.check_freq>` (:issue:`34050`)
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