diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a9c6044077..4181fb2fdc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Build Windows wheels
+        env:
+          TF_NEED_CUDA: 0
+          BAZEL_VC: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Enterprise/VC/"
         shell: bash
         run: |
           python -m pip install wheel setuptools
diff --git a/tensorflow_addons/version.py b/tensorflow_addons/version.py
index 9c95ae7a69..c25cb57417 100644
--- a/tensorflow_addons/version.py
+++ b/tensorflow_addons/version.py
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 # We follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
 _MAJOR_VERSION = "0"
 _MINOR_VERSION = "8"
-_PATCH_VERSION = "0"
+_PATCH_VERSION = "1"
 
 # When building releases, we can update this value on the release branch to
 # reflect the current release candidate ('rc0', 'rc1') or, finally, the official
 # stable release (indicated by `_VERSION_SUFFIX = ''`). Outside the context of a
 # release branch, the current version is by default assumed to be a
 # 'development' version, labeled 'dev'.
-_VERSION_SUFFIX = "dev"
+_VERSION_SUFFIX = ""
 
 # Example, '0.1.0-dev'
 __version__ = ".".join([_MAJOR_VERSION, _MINOR_VERSION, _PATCH_VERSION,])