diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index fc88a01..84c9d44 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Changelog
 Unreleased
 ++++++++++
 
+0.8.1 (2020-12-10)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+- Various small bugfixes
+
 0.8.0 (2020-08-05)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/parso/__init__.py b/parso/__init__.py
index 20b4d84..7550ad8 100644
--- a/parso/__init__.py
+++ b/parso/__init__.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ from parso.grammar import Grammar, load_grammar
 from parso.utils import split_lines, python_bytes_to_unicode
 
 
-__version__ = '0.8.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
 
 
 def parse(code=None, **kwargs):