diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8240030..f476054 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DOCDIR        = doc
 DOCHTML       = $(DOCDIR)/html
 DOCTREES      = $(DOCDIR)/doctrees
 ALLSPHINXOPTS = -d $(DOCTREES) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(DOCDIR)
-VERSION       = 0.8.0
+VERSION       = 0.8.1
 FULLVER       = pyxattr-$(VERSION)
 DISTFILE      = $(FULLVER).tar.gz
 
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index f5b8ed8..6924552 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.8.0'
+version = '0.8.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.8.0'
+release = '0.8.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 18e91a9..08247f7 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 long_desc = """This is a C extension module for Python which
 implements extended attributes manipulation. It is a wrapper on top
 of the attr C library - see attr(5)."""
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 author = "Iustin Pop"
 author_email = "iustin@k1024.org"
 libraries = []