diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7195f6f..a7fa3fe 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -71,3 +71,4 @@
 /appstream-glib-0.7.17.tar.xz
 /appstream-glib-0.7.18.tar.xz
 /appstream-glib-0.8.0.tar.xz
+/appstream-glib-0.8.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/libappstream-glib.spec b/libappstream-glib.spec
index e2e42f1..367ae32 100644
--- a/libappstream-glib.spec
+++ b/libappstream-glib.spec
@@ -4,15 +4,12 @@
 
 Summary:   Library for AppStream metadata
 Name:      libappstream-glib
-Version:   0.8.0
-Release:   4%{?dist}
+Version:   0.8.1
+Release:   1%{?dist}
 License:   LGPLv2+
 URL:       http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appstream-glib/
 Source0:   http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appstream-glib/releases/appstream-glib-%{version}.tar.xz
 
-# https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/commit/323f4ea96f95d1522b951963a5d91e5320d38274
-Patch100:  libappstream-glib-0.8.0-proxy-crash-fix.patch
-
 BuildRequires: glib2-devel >= %{glib2_version}
 BuildRequires: docbook-utils
 BuildRequires: gtk-doc
@@ -132,6 +129,11 @@ from a directory of packages.
 %{_mandir}/man1/appstream-builder.1.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 10 2022 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> 0.8.1-1
+- New upstream release
+- Improve handling of <em> and <code> tags
+- Properly initialize validation helper
+
 * Sun Jul 31 2022 Vitaly Zaitsev <vitaly@easycoding.org> - 0.8.0-4
 - Packported upstream patch to fix RHBZ#2110204.
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d93ab7d..bc1302d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (appstream-glib-0.8.0.tar.xz) = 13aeb37b8e890691a14d20ed0a86a14ae7125a6e08e60adcefe58ce2f861cebf7f49a01d9d1c137205b923f3162b307fc2671d476b7aaa9eae5fc5234ea4c1da
+SHA512 (appstream-glib-0.8.1.tar.xz) = 32462a32ea25c945abb8d9084af1c84850f264b3a2136c6f54444e0168acf0d74ee450f8cbf483a504e417dc29b85a2e9bbc0a5bb8a217296eccacaa02db5ef5