diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7640ac21..014d579f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Here you can see the full list of changes between each Flask release.
 Version 0.8.1
 -------------
 
-Bugfix release, release date to be decided
+Bugfix release, released on July 1th 2012
 
 - Fixed an issue with the undocumented `flask.session` module to not
   work properly on Python 2.5.  It should not be used but did cause
diff --git a/flask/__init__.py b/flask/__init__.py
index 04d7d1f2..98fcbe13 100644
--- a/flask/__init__.py
+++ b/flask/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
-__version__ = '0.8.1-dev'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
 
 # utilities we import from Werkzeug and Jinja2 that are unused
 # in the module but are exported as public interface.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index af36a8bb..2aad7b57 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class run_audit(Command):
 
 setup(
     name='Flask',
-    version='0.8.1-dev',
+    version='0.8.1',
     url='http://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/',
     license='BSD',
     author='Armin Ronacher',