diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 49f156b..5ca1123 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 0.8.1 (2018-09-06)
+- Removed `CommonMark` symlink.
+
 ## 0.8.0 (2018-09-03)
 - Added the `Node.normalize()` method. (from @lez)
 - Renamed package name to `commonmark` for PEP8 compliance. You can now do `import commonmark` as well as `import CommonMark`. Closes [#60](https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py/issues/60)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e186d39..a037385 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ to date with changes in ``commonmark.js``.
 CommonMark-py is tested against the CommonMark spec with Python versions
 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.
 
-**Current version:** 0.8.0
+**Current version:** 0.8.1
 
 |Build Status| |Doc Link|
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5fbbf98..a2e81f4 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
 # 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 94a53cf..34fa367 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def run(self):
 setup(
     name="commonmark",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
-    version="0.8.0",
+    version="0.8.1",
     license="BSD-3-Clause",
     description="Python parser for the CommonMark Markdown spec",
     long_description=long_description,