diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
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--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+0.8.2 - 2015-04-10
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Fixed a race condition when initializing the OpenSSL or CommonCrypto backends
+  in a multi-threaded scenario.
+
 0.8.1 - 2015-03-20
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/src/cryptography/__about__.py b/src/cryptography/__about__.py
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--- a/src/cryptography/__about__.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/__about__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
                " and primitives to Python developers.")
 __uri__ = "https://github.com/pyca/cryptography"
 
-__version__ = "0.8.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.2"
 
 __author__ = "The cryptography developers"
 __email__ = "cryptography-dev@python.org"
diff --git a/vectors/cryptography_vectors/__about__.py b/vectors/cryptography_vectors/__about__.py
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--- a/vectors/cryptography_vectors/__about__.py
+++ b/vectors/cryptography_vectors/__about__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 __uri__ = "https://github.com/pyca/cryptography"
 
-__version__ = "0.8.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.2"
 
 __author__ = "The cryptography developers"
 __email__ = "cryptography-dev@python.org"