diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index f7229578..ff54be80 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -160,3 +160,11 @@ History
 * Refactored sync to use UCSC MySQL database connection
 * Updated sync to incorporate transcript refseq versions
 * Updated package to use latest cookiecutter template
+
+0.8.1 (2019-06-14)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+`0.8.1 Changelog <https://github.com/chopdgd/django-genome/compare/v0.8.0...v0.8.1>`_
+
+* Gene entries created from RefSeq where not setting the chromosome attribute
+* Added better logging functionality
diff --git a/genome/__init__.py b/genome/__init__.py
index 32a90a3b..ef72cc0f 100644
--- a/genome/__init__.py
+++ b/genome/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.8.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 34be8f9e..b497695a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.8.0
+current_version = 0.8.1
 commit = True
 tag = True