diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index a0e6aad..9528b43 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+## Changes in v0.8.1
+
+### Feature changes
+
+ - (gxi): set gxi's icon as window icon
+ - (gxi): add option to launch new instance
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+ - (gxi): set gettext domain for glade files
+ - (i18n): update lang (Dutch)
+
 ## Changes in v0.8.0
 
 ### Feature changes
diff --git a/data/com.github.Cogitri.gxi.appdata.xml.in b/data/com.github.Cogitri.gxi.appdata.xml.in
index f3a7cd6..c28e8bf 100644
--- a/data/com.github.Cogitri.gxi.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/com.github.Cogitri.gxi.appdata.xml.in
@@ -32,6 +32,22 @@
 	</provides>
 
 	<releases>
+		<release version="0.8.1" date="2019-06-03">
+			<p>
+				Please not that this is the last relase of gxi which will use xi-editor backed
+				into gxi as a static lib. 0.9.0 will switch to using the global xi-core instance! :)
+			</p>
+		<p>Feature changes in this release:</p>
+			<ul>
+				<li>(gxi): set gxi's icon as window icon</li>
+				<li>(gxi): add option to launch new instance</li>
+			</ul>
+		<p>Bugfixes in this release</p>
+			<ul>
+			 	<li>(gxi): set gettext domain for glade files</li>
+ 				<li>(i18n): update lang (Dutch)</li>
+			</ul>
+		</release>		
 		<release version="0.8.0" date="2019-05-29">
 		<p>
 			Please note that this release switches everything to the GSettings config backend!
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index dee48b7..ed2a3a0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'gxi', 'rust',
-  version: '0.8.0',
+  version: '0.8.1',
   license: 'MIT',
 )