diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 2a40c1bb6f128e0104c295180e30bb8f29331152_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..e16220dfb3ea8dfc8cadf89bc3602ec40253edc7_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-Version 3.8.0 released 2015-XX-XX
+Version 3.8.1 released 2015-XX-XX
+
+* Fix typo in keyword argument name introduced in 3.8.0
+  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/pull/123
+
+Version 3.8.0 released 2015-07-18
 
 * New iterable_as_array encoder option to perform lazy serialization of
   any iterable objects, without having to convert to tuple or list.
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index 2a40c1bb6f128e0104c295180e30bb8f29331152_Y29uZi5weQ==..e16220dfb3ea8dfc8cadf89bc3602ec40253edc7_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '3.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '3.8.0'
+release = '3.8.1'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2a40c1bb6f128e0104c295180e30bb8f29331152_c2V0dXAucHk=..e16220dfb3ea8dfc8cadf89bc3602ec40253edc7_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '3.8.0'
+VERSION = '3.8.1'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 
 with open('README.rst', 'r') as f:
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index 2a40c1bb6f128e0104c295180e30bb8f29331152_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..e16220dfb3ea8dfc8cadf89bc3602ec40253edc7_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 3 (char 2)
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
-__version__ = '3.8.0'
+__version__ = '3.8.1'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',