diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 68378bb..27dc66b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ homepage = "https://github.com/ZettaScaleLabs/zenoh-rpc"
 license = " EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/ZettaScaleLabs/zenoh-rpc"
-version = "0.8.1-dev"
+version = "0.8.1"
 
 [profile.release]
 codegen-units = 1
diff --git a/zrpc-derive/Cargo.toml b/zrpc-derive/Cargo.toml
index e06bacb..7f60d43 100644
--- a/zrpc-derive/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zrpc-derive/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ syn-serde = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["io-std","io-util", "rt-multi-thread"]}
 zenoh = { workspace = true }
 zenoh-util = { workspace = true }
-zrpc = { version = "0.8.1-dev", path = "../zrpc" }
+zrpc = { version = "0.8.1", path = "../zrpc" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = { workspace = true }