diff --git a/rest.spec b/rest.spec
index 0fe17ae..471ad7d 100644
--- a/rest.spec
+++ b/rest.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:          rest
-Version:       0.8.0
-Release:       4%{?dist}
+Version:       0.8.1
+Release:       1%{?dist}
 Summary:       A library for access to RESTful web services
 
 License:       LGPLv2
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" -delete
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/RestExtras-0.7.gir
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 17 2017 Debarshi Ray <rishi@fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.1-1
+- Update to 0.8.1
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.0-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2c30b00..4aa31c7 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-07ae736561aab03ee9bdd451445926ba  rest-0.8.0.tar.xz
+SHA512 (rest-0.8.1.tar.xz) = 824a341db3827e4360abe03e33735918c68913c70d797699ef74271080a1985872006ec70fd994dc8fa3fbfef417e6fe979883c11286512d0ce623b8368e40c3