diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36557af..3095bb5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 0.8.1:
+
+- Fixup of auto release in Github Actions
+
 ## Version 0.8.0:
 
 - Expose `DocoptExit` in `__all__`, let users to raise DocoptExit from their code
diff --git a/docopt/__init__.py b/docopt/__init__.py
index b73b59c..f8993d7 100644
--- a/docopt/__init__.py
+++ b/docopt/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Callable, cast, Type, Tuple, Union
 
 __all__ = ["docopt", "magic_docopt", "magic", "DocoptExit"]
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.1"
 
 
 def levenshtein_norm(source: str, target: str) -> float: