diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 2dc607e3..70f2a146 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
-Version 0.8.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Version 0.8.1 (2022-02-07)
 ---------------------------
 
 - Adds support for specifying ``kubernetes_job_timeout`` for Kubernetes compute backend jobs.
diff --git a/docs/openapi.json b/docs/openapi.json
index 7552bea1..91e7a320 100644
--- a/docs/openapi.json
+++ b/docs/openapi.json
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
   "info": {
     "description": "REANA Job Controller API",
     "title": "reana-job-controller",
-    "version": "0.8.0"
+    "version": "0.8.1"
   },
   "parameters": {},
   "paths": {
diff --git a/reana_job_controller/version.py b/reana_job_controller/version.py
index aa8982a6..537eaa72 100644
--- a/reana_job_controller/version.py
+++ b/reana_job_controller/version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
 
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.1"