diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 54851d0..f70cc38 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html),
 with the exception that 0.x versions can break between minor versions.
 
+## [0.8.1] - 2022-04-14
+### Changed
+- Skip parsing very short strings for URLs as a performance optimization
+
 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-11-26
 ### Added
 - New option `url_must_have_scheme` on `LinkFinder` that can be set to
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ Initial release of linkify, a Rust library to find links such as URLs and email
 addresses in plain text, handling surrounding punctuation correctly.
 
 
+[0.8.1]: https://github.com/robinst/linkify/compare/0.8.0...0.8.1
 [0.8.0]: https://github.com/robinst/linkify/compare/0.7.0...0.8.0
 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/robinst/linkify/compare/0.6.0...0.7.0
 [0.6.0]: https://github.com/robinst/linkify/compare/0.5.0...0.6.0
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8b2e2dd..17464a7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "linkify"
-version = "0.8.0" # remember to update html_root_url
+version = "0.8.1" # remember to update html_root_url
 authors = ["Robin Stocker <robin@nibor.org>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index a2fa999..2edc7fa 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
 //! [RFC 5321]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321
 //! [RFC 6531]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6531
 
-#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/linkify/0.8.0")]
+#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/linkify/0.8.1")]
 #![deny(warnings)]
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
 #![deny(missing_debug_implementations)]