diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 02435d7..41d478b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.8.1] 2017-11-20
+* changeset validations now validate virtual attibutes
+
 ## [0.8.0] 2017-11-11
 * added `default` option to fields to set a default value
 * added `raw_query`, `raw_exec`, and `raw_scalar` to Repo to run queries directly on adapter connection
@@ -134,6 +137,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 * Query
 * Postgres Adapter
 
+[0.8.1]: https://github.com/fridgerator/crecto/compare/v0.8.0...v0.8.1
 [0.8.0]: https://github.com/fridgerator/crecto/compare/v0.7.1...v0.8.0
 [0.7.1]: https://github.com/fridgerator/crecto/compare/v0.7.0...v0.7.1
 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/fridgerator/crecto/compare/v0.6.2...v0.7.0
diff --git a/shard.yml b/shard.yml
index 39774ea..d0eedec 100644
--- a/shard.yml
+++ b/shard.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: crecto
-version: 0.8.0
+version: 0.8.1
 
 authors:
   - Nick Franken <shnick@gmail.com>
diff --git a/src/crecto/version.cr b/src/crecto/version.cr
index efbed4a..abfa7a3 100644
--- a/src/crecto/version.cr
+++ b/src/crecto/version.cr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Crecto
-  VERSION = "0.8.0"
+  VERSION = "0.8.1"
 end