diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 641625480..412d4e7a5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
-## 0.8.1 (unreleased)
+## 0.8.1 (December 14, 2016)
 
 IMPROVEMENTS:
  
- * provider/aws: Support eu-west-2 [GH-10470]
- * provider/aws: Improved the SNS topic subscription protocols validation [GH-10704]
- * providers/google: Add subnetwork_project field to enable cross-project networking [GH-9662]
- * provider/pagerduty: Allow 'team_responder' role for pagerduty_user resource [GH-10728]
+ * provider/aws: Support eu-west-2 ([#10470](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10470))
+ * provider/aws: Improved the SNS topic subscription protocols validation ([#10704](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10704))
+ * providers/google: Add subnetwork_project field to enable cross-project networking ([#9662](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/9662))
+ * provider/pagerduty: Allow 'team_responder' role for pagerduty_user resource ([#10728](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10728))
 
 BUG FIXES:
 
-  * core: Handle whitespace around the key in the `-var` flag. [GH-10717]
-  * core: `terraform` block works in the presence of `_override` files [GH-10715]
-  * core: Fix error when a provider in a module only referenced a variable [GH-10719]
-  * core: Destroy ordering for resources that depend on each other across modules is correct [GH-745]
+  * core: Handle whitespace around the key in the `-var` flag. ([#10717](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10717))
+  * core: `terraform` block works in the presence of `_override` files ([#10715](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10715))
+  * core: Fix error when a provider in a module only referenced a variable ([#10719](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10719))
+  * core: Destroy ordering for resources that depend on each other across modules is correct ([#745](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/745))
   
 DEPRECATION REMOVALS:
 
-  * provider/aws: Removed deprecated `parameter_group` from `aws_rds_cluster` [GH-10733]
+  * provider/aws: Removed deprecated `parameter_group` from `aws_rds_cluster` ([#10733](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/10733))
 
 ## 0.8.0 (December 13, 2016)
 
diff --git a/terraform/version.go b/terraform/version.go
index 495b14338..328f349c5 100644
--- a/terraform/version.go
+++ b/terraform/version.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const Version = "0.8.1"
 // A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 // then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 // such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-const VersionPrerelease = "dev"
+const VersionPrerelease = ""
 
 // SemVersion is an instance of version.Version. This has the secondary
 // benefit of verifying during tests and init time that our version is a
diff --git a/website/config.rb b/website/config.rb
index d579cbc5c..bf347cdc9 100644
--- a/website/config.rb
+++ b/website/config.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ set :base_url, "https://www.terraform.io/"
 
 activate :hashicorp do |h|
   h.name        = "terraform"
-  h.version     = "0.8.0"
+  h.version     = "0.8.1"
   h.github_slug = "hashicorp/terraform"
 end