diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b670443602..a81d4d5544 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "splink"
-version = "3.8.0"
+version = "3.8.1"
 description = "Fast probabilistic data linkage at scale"
 authors = ["Robin Linacre <robinlinacre@hotmail.com>", "Sam Lindsay", "Theodore Manassis", "Tom Hepworth", "Andy Bond", "Ross Kennedy"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/splink/__init__.py b/splink/__init__.py
index c0979506ed..5260acf82e 100644
--- a/splink/__init__.py
+++ b/splink/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "3.8.0"
+__version__ = "3.8.1"