diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 04f409cbd..a9664059e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+0.8.1 (2018-02-27)
+------------------
+- Correction for README in 0.8.X release.
+
+
 0.8.0 (2018-02-27)
 ------------------
 - It's now possible to specify queue_name on AWS SNS+SQS and AMQP decorators
diff --git a/tomodachi/__version__.py b/tomodachi/__version__.py
index 034f51593..fe44687c9 100644
--- a/tomodachi/__version__.py
+++ b/tomodachi/__version__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '0.8.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(__version__)