diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 26396e0..feacc0e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [unreleased]
+## [0.8.1] - 2016-10-18
 
 ### Fixed
 * `federation.utils.network.send_document` incorrectly passed in `kwargs` to `requests.post`, causing an error when sending custom headers.
diff --git a/federation/__init__.py b/federation/__init__.py
index 777f190..8088f75 100644
--- a/federation/__init__.py
+++ b/federation/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.1"