diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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 ### Added
 
+## [0.8.1] - 2018-02-27
+
+### Changed
+
+* Relaxed upper bound of jni to admit jni-0.6.0.
+
 ## [0.8.0] - 2018-02-27
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/inline-java.cabal b/inline-java.cabal
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 name:                inline-java
-version:             0.8.0
+version:             0.8.1
 synopsis:            Java interop via inline Java code in Haskell modules.
 description:         Please see README.md.
 homepage:            http://github.com/tweag/inline-java#readme