diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 71a12dc..32a81fb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+0.8.1 (2014-09-12)
+------------------
+
+* The check added to the `GeoIP2\Database\Reader` lookup methods in 0.8.0 did
+  not work with the GeoIP2 City Database Subset by Continent with World
+  Countries databases. This has been fixed. Fixes GitHub issue #23.
+
 0.8.0 (2014-09-10)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42020ad..2a02324 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ You should now have the file `composer.phar` in your project directory.
 Run in your project root:
 
 ```
-php composer.phar require geoip2/geoip2:~0.8.0
+php composer.phar require geoip2/geoip2:~0.8.1
 ```
 
 You should now have the files `composer.json` and `composer.lock` as well as