diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fe57fb43..6256fc4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-**Version 0.8.1 (unreleased)**
+**Version 0.8.1**
  - Minor optimizations
  - Fix issue where interlaced images with certain widths would fail to optimize
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1dfcf8af..c0d7942a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxipng"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 authors = ["Joshua Holmer <jholmer.in@gmail.com>"]
 description = "A lossless PNG compression optimizer"
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 3cedc08e..8e70243e 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use std::fs::DirBuilder;
 use std::io::{Write, stderr};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
-const VERSION_STRING: &'static str = "0.8.0";
+const VERSION_STRING: &'static str = "0.8.1";
 
 fn main() {
     let matches =