diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index db20c60..5d75d41 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 8.1.0
+
+- Publish Manylinux wheel for ARM architecture (aarch64) to pypi
+
 ## 8.0.9
 
 - Fix: Licenese metadata in in `pyproject.toml` now states `licenese="MIT"` instead of specifying a file path.
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 350bc05..af38113 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 author = "Markus Klein"
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = "8.0.9"
+release = "8.1.0"
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1ef7b66..afafa52 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ authors = [{name = "Markus Klein"}]
 description="Read the data of an ODBC data source as sequence of Apache Arrow record batches."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MIT"
-version = "8.0.9"
+version = "8.1.0"
 # cffi: for communicating with Rust
 # pyarrow: to create pyarrow arrays out of the c representation
 dependencies = ["cffi", "pyarrow >= 8.0.0"]