diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d851b20..c6ba77b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 #### Features ####
 #### Bug fixes ####
 
+### 1.8.1 ###
+
+#### Bug fixes ####
+*   Fix display of exception cause information in RSpec 3.4 (Thomas Walpole) [Issue #702]
+*   Fix clicking on elements inside an SVG element (Thomas Walpole) [Issue #331]
+*   Error information is returned with network traffic (Thomas Walpole)
+
 ### 1.8.0 ###
 
 #### Features ####
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 03efd38..b034be8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ provided by [PhantomJS](http://phantomjs.org/).
 **If you're viewing this at https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist,
 you're reading the documentation for the master branch.
 [View documentation for the latest release
-(1.8.0).](https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist/tree/v1.8.0)**
+(1.8.1).](https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist/tree/v1.8.1)**
 
 ## Getting help ##
 
diff --git a/lib/capybara/poltergeist/version.rb b/lib/capybara/poltergeist/version.rb
index 8e4ea3c..a9912fd 100644
--- a/lib/capybara/poltergeist/version.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara/poltergeist/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module Capybara
   module Poltergeist
-    VERSION = "1.8.0"
+    VERSION = "1.8.1"
   end
 end