diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7cb0f20edf4af061508948722f76f3f2a3fc6a0d..30092f1134a15388ae60bda9e537e9ccac603b36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Unreleased
-----------
+[1.8.1] (2025-02-17)
+--------------------
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ Unreleased
 - mp3 support by using FFmpeg instead of librosa in #8
 - add language detection endpoint in #9
 
+[1.8.1]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.8.1
 [1.8.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.8.0
 [1.7.1]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.7.1
 [1.7.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.7.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 417a0617a1fa30c6e16707a22e26a321250e3477..6b494a232d8cbfab3ed57d4b9d5fd0800e1ba02e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Whisper ASR Box is a general-purpose speech recognition toolkit. Whisper Models
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.8.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.8.1) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 370ed02bf980a3d679ac77cc310c729b9714fda5..32abeb9790bfa6f34c034116d56237713314825b 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.8.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.8.1) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index caacfc27aa86aa25d6097be20691e18282655f7a..6565b8bba8a6f8c82e1bcb7f7fb7e0c8d4cf51af 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.9.0-dev"
+version = "1.8.1"
 description = "Whisper ASR Webservice is a general-purpose speech recognition webservice."
 homepage = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/"
 license = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/blob/main/LICENCE"