diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7be5985..42a916f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@
 
 
 
+## v0.8.1 (2024-01-07)
+
+### Fix
+
+* fix: re-ordered parameters in ctor to avoid a breaking change (#79) ([`6c1b608`](https://github.com/AI21Labs/ai21-tokenizer/commit/6c1b6088c0914ffc77b53613047606c398e0557c))
+
+
 ## v0.8.0 (2024-01-03)
 
 ### Chore
 
+* chore(release): v0.8.0 [skip ci] ([`c8b54df`](https://github.com/AI21Labs/ai21-tokenizer/commit/c8b54dff67c13587943f03198ec5a4e1dca7be88))
+
 * chore(deps-dev): bump pytest from 7.2.1 to 7.4.4 (#75)
 
 Bumps [pytest](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest) from 7.2.1 to 7.4.4.
diff --git a/ai21_tokenizer/version.py b/ai21_tokenizer/version.py
index 44f4ad0..26df0ed 100644
--- a/ai21_tokenizer/version.py
+++ b/ai21_tokenizer/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = "0.8.0"
+VERSION = "0.8.1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ba25b3e..6701ad5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ schema_pattern = "(build|ci|docs|feat|fix|perf|refactor|style|test|chore|revert|
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "ai21-tokenizer"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 description = ""
 authors = ["AI21 Labs"]
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ newline_sequence = "\n"
 
 
 
+
 [tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
 coverage = "^7.1.0"
 pytest = "7.4.4"