diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f22b4ef1bf58302a49117274dcbb3c07d7080de2..305c5a410f83d5fb710b88d853d7fba9ca4c0694 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## v0.8.1 2020-09-09
+
+### New ✨
+
+Add `jupyter-book create --cookiecutter` (thanks to [@TomasBeuzen](https://github.com/TomasBeuzen))
+: This adds a `--cookiecutter` option to `jb create`, to allow users to use the [Jupyter Book cookiecutter](https://github.com/executablebooks/cookiecutter-jupyter-book) to create a book template.
+
+  The cookiecutter is suitable for more advanced users that want to create a ready-to-go repository to host their book that includes pre-populated metafiles such as README, LICENSE, CONDUCT, CONTRIBUTING, etc., as well as GitHub Actions workflow files.
+
+### Fixes 🐛
+
+This release contains numerous improvements, to the documentation and code, to address issues noted by you guys:
+
+- Fix issues with single document builds (e.g. pdflatex) and relative path resolutions
+- Ensure `sphinx-book-theme` is loaded on PDF builds (to allow the use of the `margin` directive)
+- Allow execution `timeout: -1` and `execute_notebooks: off` to be valid in the `_config.yml`
+
 ## v0.8.0 2020-09-01
 
 ([full changelog](https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/compare/v0.7.5...v0.8.0))
diff --git a/docs/reference/_changelog.md b/docs/reference/_changelog.md
index d24e7ac0718f3e54c31bd9bbe1d98fb63ae03f2d..2d27a188623a2396ee0331ccdc928a556ba5a859 100644
--- a/docs/reference/_changelog.md
+++ b/docs/reference/_changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 ```{include} ../../CHANGELOG.md
 :relative-docs: docs/
 :relative-images:
diff --git a/jupyter_book/__init__.py b/jupyter_book/__init__.py
index 49a597ca855fa1b8286a21494a3a0fffb4349e85..155f9767d9bbb92b84e0a5fb672949a2e78bca9b 100644
--- a/jupyter_book/__init__.py
+++ b/jupyter_book/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from .toc import add_toc_to_sphinx, add_toctree
 from .directive.toc import TableofContents, SwapTableOfContents
 
 
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.1"
 
 
 def add_static_files(app, config):