diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d77aa5e..2f2959f5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # ChangeLog
 
+## v1.8.1 (2017-01-17):
+
+* Bug fix: Add dilation to object dict and assign defaults to dil_w = dil_h = 1 [#335, #336]
+* Bug fix: Prevent GPU backend from ignoring non-zero slope in Rectlinclip and change default slope to 0
+* Bug fix: Nesterov momentum was updating velocities incorrectly
+
 ## v1.8.0 (2016-12-28):
 
 * Skip Thought Vectors (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06726) example
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
index 483176c4..342fd475 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-.. Copyright 2015 Nervana Systems Inc.
+.. Copyright 2015-2017 Nervana Systems Inc.
 .. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 .. you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 .. You may obtain a copy of the License at
@@ -36,17 +36,10 @@ Features include:
 
 New features in this release:
 
-* Skip Thought Vectors (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06726) example
-* Dilated convolution support
-* Nesterov Accelerated Gradient option to SGD optimizer
-* MultiMetric class to allow wrapping Metric classes
-* Support for serializing and deserializing encoder-decoder models
-* Allow specifying the number of time steps to evaluate during beam search
-* A new community-contributed Docker image
-* Improved error messages when a tensor is created with an invalid shape or reshaped to an incompatible size
-* Fix bugs in MultiCost support
-* Documentation fixes [#331]
-* See `change log`_.
+* Bug fix: Add dilation to object dict and assign defaults to dil_w = dil_h = 1 [#335, #336]
+* Bug fix: Prevent GPU backend from ignoring non-zero slope in Rectlinclip and change default slope to 0
+* Bug fix: Nesterov momentum was updating velocities incorrectly
+* See more in the `change log`_.
 
 We use neon internally at Nervana to solve our `customers' problems`_
 in many domains. Consider joining us. We are hiring across several
diff --git a/doc/source/previous_versions.rst b/doc/source/previous_versions.rst
index eb44eac5..700ceab5 100644
--- a/doc/source/previous_versions.rst
+++ b/doc/source/previous_versions.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-.. Copyright 2015-2016 Nervana Systems Inc.
+.. Copyright 2015-2017 Nervana Systems Inc.
 .. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 .. you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 .. You may obtain a copy of the License at
@@ -17,6 +17,24 @@
 Previous Versions
 =================
 
+neon v1.8.0
+-----------
+
+|Docs180|_
+
+neon v1.8.0 released December 28, 2016 supporting:
+
+* Skip Thought Vectors (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06726) example
+* Dilated convolution support
+* Nesterov Accelerated Gradient option to SGD optimizer
+* MultiMetric class to allow wrapping Metric classes
+* Support for serializing and deserializing encoder-decoder models
+* Allow specifying the number of time steps to evaluate during beam search
+* A new community-contributed Docker image
+* Improved error messages when a tensor is created with an invalid shape or reshaped to an incompatible size
+* Fix bugs in MultiCost support
+* Documentation fixes [#331]
+
 neon v1.7.0
 -----------
 
@@ -373,6 +391,7 @@ neon v0.8.1
 
 Initial public release of neon.
 
+.. |Docs180| replace:: Docs
 .. |Docs170| replace:: Docs
 .. |Docs160| replace:: Docs
 .. |Docs154| replace:: Docs
@@ -395,6 +414,7 @@ Initial public release of neon.
 .. |Docs9| replace:: Docs
 .. |Docs8| replace:: Docs
 .. _cudanet: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/cuda-convnet2
+.. _Docs180: http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/1.8.0
 .. _Docs170: http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/1.7.0
 .. _Docs160: http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/1.6.0
 .. _Docs154: http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/1.5.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1402408f..a636470c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright 2016 Nervana Systems Inc.
+# Copyright 2016-2017 Nervana Systems Inc.
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 # You may obtain a copy of the License at
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 import subprocess
 
 # Define version information
-VERSION = '1.8.0'
+VERSION = '1.8.1'
 FULLVERSION = VERSION
 write_version = True
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 if write_version:
     txt = "# " + ("-" * 77) + "\n"
-    txt += "# Copyright 2016 Nervana Systems Inc.\n"
+    txt += "# Copyright 2017 Nervana Systems Inc.\n"
     txt += "# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 "
     txt += "(the \"License\");\n"
     txt += "# you may not use this file except in compliance with the "