diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9b3436e86..c3de9f66e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ endif()
 project(OSRM C CXX)
 set(OSRM_VERSION_MAJOR 5)
 set(OSRM_VERSION_MINOR 8)
-set(OSRM_VERSION_PATCH 0)
+set(OSRM_VERSION_PATCH 1)
 set(OSRM_VERSION "${OSRM_VERSION_MAJOR}.${OSRM_VERSION_MINOR}.${OSRM_VERSION_PATCH}")
 
 add_definitions(-DOSRM_PROJECT_DIR="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b3a54aa55..cf8704305 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "osrm",
-  "version": "5.8.0",
+  "version": "5.8.1",
   "private": false,
   "description": "The Open Source Routing Machine is a high performance routing engine written in C++14 designed to run on OpenStreetMap data.",
   "dependencies": {