diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dbffa50..3182c43 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+0.8.1 (2021-10-07)
+------------------
+
+ - enforce dpkg >= 1.20.0 and apt >= 2.3.7
+ - allow working directory be not world readable
+ - do not run xz and zstd with --threads=0 since this is a bad default for
+   machines with more than 100 cores
+ - bit-by-bit identical chrootless mode
+
 0.8.0 (2021-09-21)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 507b6e3..ac95bd3 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.8.0';
+our $VERSION = '0.8.1';
 
 use English;
 use Getopt::Long;