diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 4ad485e..e7f2c1b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+v0.8.2, 27 Feb 2015 -- autodetect varibright.
+
 v0.8.1, 7 Feb 2015 -- Rewritten for asyncio/aiosc.
 
 v0.1dev, 1 Jan 2013 -- Initial release to pypi
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8e6e4cc..8c66df7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     url='https://github.com/artfwo/pymonome',
     description='a monome serialosc client in python',
     long_description=long_description,
-    version='0.8.1',
+    version='0.8.2',
     py_modules=['monome'],
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=[