diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6ce00da58..f112b288d 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+# Coluna 0.8.1
+
+This is a minor update 
+
+Features:
+- A new parameter whether to presolve the DW reformulation or not
+- A new parameter whether to do strong integrality check in column generation
+
+Fixed bugs:
+- A bug in the presolve algorithm when the partial solution to fix contains deactivated variables
+
 # Coluna 0.8.0
 
 This is a major update which implements the presolve algorithm. 
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 32f8cb8de..acc4375d6 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Coluna"
 uuid = "88b4ec78-b192-11e8-04aa-4d367dd96a64"
 authors = ["François Vanderbeck", "Guillaume Marques", "Vitor Nesello", "Ruslan Sadykov"]
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 
 [deps]
 BlockDecomposition = "6cde8614-403a-11e9-12f1-c10d0f0caca0"
diff --git a/src/Coluna.jl b/src/Coluna.jl
index 89fa1161e..ec3f20e1a 100644
--- a/src/Coluna.jl
+++ b/src/Coluna.jl
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export Algorithm, ColunaBase, MathProg, Env, DefaultOptimizer, Parameters,
 
 const _to = TO.TimerOutput()
 
-version() = v"0.8.0"
+version() = v"0.8.1"
 
 include("kpis.jl")
 include("parameters.jl")