From aa62d46bfdf426a7f1180f809aa8846c2447ee27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Bailey <stephen.code@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:46:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update release notes and version for surveysim/0.8.1

---
 doc/changes.rst          | 11 +++++++++--
 py/surveysim/_version.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/changes.rst b/doc/changes.rst
index 3986954..1051097 100644
--- a/doc/changes.rst
+++ b/doc/changes.rst
@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
 surveysim change log
 ====================
 
-0.8.1 (unreleased)
+0.8.2 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
-* Adds surveysim --config-file option
+* No changes yet
+
+0.8.1 (2017-09-20)
+------------------
+
+* Adds surveysim --config-file option (PR `#49`_); requires desisurvey/0.9.1.
+
+.. _`#49`: https://github.com/desihub/surveysim/pull/49
 
 0.8.0 (2017-09-11)
 ------------------
diff --git a/py/surveysim/_version.py b/py/surveysim/_version.py
index a1ce48a..ef72cc0 100644
--- a/py/surveysim/_version.py
+++ b/py/surveysim/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.8.0.dev249'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'