diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 26c016f894..9190fb957f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.8.1] 2017-04-16
+
+### Fixed
+- Fixed build on FreeBSD. (Cherry-picked
+  [a859ee3c](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/commit/a859ee3c9396dfdb118fcc2c8ecc697e2d303467))
+
+
 ## [0.8.0] 2017-03-02
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7de7d831b6..27a2a6f192 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 name        = "nix"
 description = "Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs"
-version     = "0.8.0"
+version     = "0.8.1"
 authors     = ["The nix-rust Project Developers"]
 homepage    = "https://github.com/nix-rust/nix"
 repository  = "https://github.com/nix-rust/nix"