diff --git a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.8.md b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.8.md
index 40c66b2199..27c1334b96 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.8.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.8.md
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+## v0.8.1
+
+Changes since `v0.8.0`:
+
+### Feature
+
+- Add gauge metric admission_cycle_preemption_skips that reports the number of Workloads in a ClusterQueue
+  that got preemptions candidates, but had to be skipped in the last cycle. (#2942, @alculquicondor)
+- Publish images via artifact registry (#2832, @alculquicondor)
+
+### Bug or Regression
+
+- CLI: Support `-` and `.` in the resource flavor name on `create cq` (#2706, @trasc)
+- Detect and enable support for job CRDs installed after Kueue starts. (#2991, @ChristianZaccaria)
+- Fix over-admission after deleting resources from borrowing ClusterQueue. (#2879, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Fix support for kuberay 1.2.x (#2983, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Helm: Fix a bug for "unclosed action error". (#2688, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Prevent infinite preemption loop when PrioritySortingWithinCohort=false
+  is used together with borrowWithinCohort. (#2831, @mimowo)
+- Support for helm charts in the us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/k8s-staging-images/charts repository (#2834, @IrvingMg)
+- Update Flavor selection logic to prefer Flavors which allow reclamation of lent nominal quota, over Flavors which require preempting workloads within the ClusterQueue. This matches the behavior in the single Flavor case. (#2829, @gabesaba)
+
 ## v0.8.0
 
 Changes since `v0.7.0`:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 48bc17f908..f288cf7c31 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ LD_FLAGS += -X '$(version_pkg).GitCommit=$(shell git rev-parse HEAD)'
 
 # Update these variables when preparing a new release or a release branch.
 # Then run `make prepare-release-branch`
-RELEASE_VERSION=v0.8.0
+RELEASE_VERSION=v0.8.1
 RELEASE_BRANCH=release-0.8
 
 .PHONY: all
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c0af440b1..418b03ecf7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Read the [overview](https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/) to learn more.
 To install the latest release of Kueue in your cluster, run the following command:
 
 ```shell
-kubectl apply --server-side -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.8.0/manifests.yaml
+kubectl apply --server-side -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.8.1/manifests.yaml
 ```
 
 The controller runs in the `kueue-system` namespace.
diff --git a/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml b/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
index 61047ebf78..f18fd8fd1e 100644
--- a/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ version: 0.1.0
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
 # follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
 # It is recommended to use it with quotes.
-appVersion: "v0.8.0"
+appVersion: "v0.8.1"
diff --git a/site/hugo.toml b/site/hugo.toml
index 978e8e5e98..a2656ecd41 100644
--- a/site/hugo.toml
+++ b/site/hugo.toml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ ignoreFiles = []
   # The major.minor version tag for the version of the docs represented in this
   # branch of the repository. Used in the "version-banner" partial to display a
   # version number for this doc set.
-  version = "v0.8.0"
+  version = "v0.8.1"
 
   # Flag used in the "version-banner" partial to decide whether to display a
   # banner on every page indicating that this is an archived version of the docs.