diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index aacbdc131c811f583218baa710602c2d092aa451..416aa0d6d3c7421c3840258ac5b50130666efe82 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 Changelog of webgeodyn
 ######################
 
+0.8.1 - 2019-08-09
+------------------
+* Clean-up in docs:
+    - Module READMEs are now in docstrings to be displayed with Sphinx
+    - CHANGELOG and README were converted to *rst* and are now integrated in the Sphinx doc
+* ``pygeodyn_hdf5_forecasts`` format is now compatible with pygeodyn >= 1.1
+
 0.8.0 - 2019-08-07
 ------------------
 * COVOBS splines loading method now returns the SV
diff --git a/webgeodyn/_version.py b/webgeodyn/_version.py
index 32a90a3b944427b7122686816d6f979b779242cb..ef72cc0f1a07c4f666229adea7f6f42629d9e3aa 100644
--- a/webgeodyn/_version.py
+++ b/webgeodyn/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.8.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'