diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c487bf4ba85..8eaaba98e8d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,23 +7,16 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 **Note: we move fast, but still we preserve 0.1 version (one feature release) back compatibility.**
 
 
-## [unReleased] - 2022-MM-DD
-
-### Added
+## [0.8.1] - 2022-04-27
 
 ### Changed
 
 - Reimplemented the `signal_distortion_ratio` metric, which removed the absolute requirement of `fast-bss-eval` ([#964](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/964))
 
-
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed "Sort currently does not support bool dtype on CUDA" error in MAP for empty preds ([#983](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/983))
-
-
 - Fixed `BinnedPrecisionRecallCurve` when `thresholds` argument is not provided ([#968](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/968))
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-
 - Fixed `CalibrationError` to work on logit input ([#985](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/985))
 
 
diff --git a/torchmetrics/__about__.py b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
index 6b231e6d7d2..b2a0a4519c2 100644
--- a/torchmetrics/__about__.py
+++ b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.1"
 __author__ = "PyTorchLightning et al."
 __author_email__ = "name@pytorchlightning.ai"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"