diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Darcs 2.8.1, 14 May 2012
+
+ * Bumped mtl dependency
+ * Updated contact details to use development mailing list
+
+
 Darcs 2.8, 22 April 2012
 
  * Important changes in Darcs 2.8
diff --git a/darcs.cabal b/darcs.cabal
--- a/darcs.cabal
+++ b/darcs.cabal
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Name:           darcs
-version:        2.8.0
+version:        2.8.1
 License:        GPL
 License-file:   COPYING
-Author:         David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net>, <darcs-users@darcs.net>
-Maintainer:     <darcs-users@darcs.net>
+Author:         David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net>, <darcs-devel@darcs.net>
+Maintainer:     <darcs-devel@darcs.net>
 
 Stability:      Experimental
 Category:       Development
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
 
     build-depends:   extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2,
                      regex-compat >= 0.95.1,
-                     mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.1,
+                     mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.2,
                      parsec       >= 2.0 && < 3.2,
                      html         == 1.0.*,
                      filepath     >= 1.1.0.0 && < 1.5.0.0,
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
 
   build-depends:   extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2,
                    regex-compat >= 0.95.1,
-                   mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.1,
+                   mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.2,
                    parsec       >= 2.0 && < 3.2,
                    html         == 1.0.*,
                    filepath     >= 1.1.0.0 && < 1.5.0.0,
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
 
     build-depends:   extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2,
                      regex-compat >= 0.95.1,
-                     mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.1,
+                     mtl          >= 1.0 && < 2.2,
                      parsec       >= 2.0 && < 3.2,
                      html         == 1.0.*,
                      filepath     >= 1.1.0.0 && < 1.5.0.0,
diff --git a/release/distributed-context b/release/distributed-context
--- a/release/distributed-context
+++ b/release/distributed-context
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-Just "\nContext:\n\n[TAG 2.8.0\nFlorent Becker <florent.becker@ens-lyon.org>**20120422151242\n Ignore-this: 150f3335021c2b37bcd1572ff55f8654\n] \n"
+Just "\nContext:\n\n[TAG 2.8.1\nGanesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>**20120514063340\n Ignore-this: fbc024be64f47a743c1336c374f9bb14\n] \n"
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