diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73437f07..abe62aed 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.8.1 (2017-08-15)
+
+* Feature: Forward compatibility with upcoming EventLoop v1.0 and v0.5 and
+  target evenement 3.0 a long side 2.0 and 1.0
+  (#104 by @clue and #111 by @WyriHaximus)
+
+* Improve test suite by locking Travis distro so new defaults will not break the build and
+  fix HHVM build for now again and ignore future HHVM build errors
+  (#109 and #110 by @clue)
+
+* Minor documentation fixes
+  (#103 by @christiaan and #108 from hansott)
+
 ## 0.8.0 (2017-05-09)
 
 * Feature: New `Server` class now acts as a facade for existing server classes
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2bc9d9bd..6d929bbb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1231,10 +1231,10 @@ The recommended way to install this library is [through Composer](http://getcomp
 This will install the latest supported version:
 
 ```bash
-$ composer require react/socket:^0.8
+$ composer require react/socket:^0.8.1
 ```
 
-More details about version upgrades can be found in the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md).
+See also the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details about version upgrades.
 
 This project aims to run on any platform and thus does not require any PHP
 extensions and supports running on legacy PHP 5.3 through current PHP 7+ and HHVM.