diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 8c5b2d50..5b4828a6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -115,10 +115,3 @@ You can finish up the process by updating the release object that was auto-creat
 Just paste in the changelog notes and hit publish. 
 
 Tada! You've published a new version of Snowfakery.
-
-Configuring Your Environment
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-To release Snowfakery, you'll need twine, which is installed with the development requirements. You'll also need to configure your `pypirc`_ file with your PyPI credentials.
-
-.. _pypirc: https://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html#the-pypirc-file
diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index aafc0061..90486515 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ In the beginning, programmers created the databases. Now the databases were form
 
 And so [Salesforce.org](http://salesforce.org/) said “Let there be data,” and there was Snowfakery. And it was good.
 
+## Snowfakery 0.8.1
+
+Snowfakery includes support for Salesforce RecordTypes.
+
+Snowfakery can output SQL/JSON NULL using YAML blank fields or the YAML literal 'null'
+
+Fields starting with __ are now properly suppressed as per the documentation.
+
+Various performance and reliability improvements: 
+ * parsed dates are now cached
+ * Jinja values are always coerced to a string where appropriate
+ * internal attributes were renamed for clarity
+ * lookups are only generated in CCI mappings if they are actually needed
+
 ## Snowfakery 0.8.0
 
 Snowfakery now specifies its install requirements with minimum versions rather than specific versions,
@@ -28,4 +42,3 @@ Snowfakery 0.6 is open source!
 ## Snowfakery 0.5
 
 The first version of Snowfakery was [Salesforce.org](http://salesforce.org/) internal-only.
-
diff --git a/snowfakery/version.py b/snowfakery/version.py
index 86755598..73baf8fe 100644
--- a/snowfakery/version.py
+++ b/snowfakery/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"