diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5447c6cd12..3fbb701a47 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+v8.0.1 2021-05-09
+=================
+
+Personal access token auth for Github.
+Enter a 40 character personal access token generated at
+https://github.com/settings/tokens with the following scopes: repo
+PAT: 
+
 v8.0.0 2021-04-03
 =================
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ee15c98c80..37e02798a0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "bindings",
     "gyp"
   ],
-  "version": "8.0.0",
+  "version": "8.0.1",
   "installVersion": 9,
   "author": "Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net> (http://tootallnate.net)",
   "repository": {