diff --git a/libxkbcommon.changes b/libxkbcommon.changes
index a254c92..4ebc3fd 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.changes
+++ b/libxkbcommon.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 12 16:30:46 UTC 2025 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 1.8.1
+  * Fixed segfault due to invalid arithmetic to bring negative
+    layout indexes into range.
+  * The tools do not load the default RMLVO (rules, model,
+    layout, variant, options) values from the environment anymore.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  4 22:05:54 UTC 2025 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libxkbcommon.spec b/libxkbcommon.spec
index 24d8976..005ea94 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.spec
+++ b/libxkbcommon.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           libxkbcommon
-Version:        1.8.0
+Version:        1.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Library for handling xkb descriptions
 License:        MIT
diff --git a/xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz b/xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index bea3e3b..0000000
--- a/xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:025c53032776ed850fbfb92683a703048cd70256df4ac1a1ec41ed3455d5d39c
-size 995648
diff --git a/xkbcommon-1.8.1.tar.gz b/xkbcommon-1.8.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2eaa21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xkbcommon-1.8.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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