diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: divest
-Version: 0.8.0
-Date: 2019-04-29
+Version: 0.8.1
+Date: 2019-05-01
 Title: Get Images Out of DICOM Format Quickly
 Authors@R: c(person("Jon", "Clayden", email="code@clayden.org", role=c("aut","cre")),
              person("Chris", "Rorden", role="aut"),
diff --git a/LICENCE b/LICENCE
index 512fd5bf..b1c89911 100644
--- a/LICENCE
+++ b/LICENCE
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-YEAR: 2018
+YEAR: 2019
 COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Jon Clayden
 ORGANIZATION: University College London
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index db1aae1a..0619af3a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ Significant changes to the divest package are laid out below for each release.
 
 ===============================================================================
 
+VERSION 0.8.1
+
+- The C++ file sorting implementation has been revised to avoid the possibility
+  of an infinite loop in which the same files are repeatedly resorted.
+- Some tweaks have been made to the package tests.
+
+===============================================================================
+
 VERSION 0.8.0
 
 - The output format used by sortDicom() is now more flexible, allowing multiple