diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 82bff2a1e..42095c814 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+2020.81 - 29 October 2020
+
+- Fix regression in 2020.79 which prevented connecting with some SSH 
+  implementations. Increase MAX_PROPOSED_ALGO to 50, and print a log 
+  message if the limit is hit. This fixes interoperability with sshj 
+  library (used by PyCharm), and GoAnywhere.
+  Reported by Pirmin Walthert and Piotr Jurkiewicz
+
+- Fix building with non-GCC compilers, reported by Kazuo Kuroi
+
+- Fix potential long delay in dbclient, found by OSS Fuzz
+
+- Fix null pointer dereference crash, found by OSS Fuzz
+
+- libtommath now uses the same random source as Dropbear (in 2020.79 
+  and 2020.80 used getrandom() separately)
+
+- Some fuzzing improvements, start of a dbclient fuzzer
+
 2020.80 - 26 June 2020
 
 - Don't block authorized_keys logins with no-X11-forwarding or no-agent-forwarding 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a0fa7abec..583244622 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+dropbear (2020.81-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>  Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:51:57 +0800
+
 dropbear (2020.80-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
diff --git a/sysoptions.h b/sysoptions.h
index 22bc18ca5..3107a0e0b 100644
--- a/sysoptions.h
+++ b/sysoptions.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *******************************************************************/
 
 #ifndef DROPBEAR_VERSION
-#define DROPBEAR_VERSION "2020.80"
+#define DROPBEAR_VERSION "2020.81"
 #endif
 
 #define LOCAL_IDENT "SSH-2.0-dropbear_" DROPBEAR_VERSION