diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 06b3712b..62f5c93e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Changelog for restic 0.8.1 (UNRELEASED)
+Changelog for restic 0.8.1 (2017-12-27)
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 The following sections list the changes in restic 0.8.1 relevant to
diff --git a/changelog/releases b/changelog/releases
index 04c0914f..a9d5e384 100644
--- a/changelog/releases
+++ b/changelog/releases
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # 
 # The resulting changelog generated by `calens` will list all versions in
 # exactly this order.
-0.8.1
+0.8.1 2017-12-27
 0.8.0 2017-11-26
 0.7.3 2017-09-20
 0.7.2 2017-09-13