diff --git a/Release_Notes.md b/Release_Notes.md
index 075f5296..db55bcd4 100644
--- a/Release_Notes.md
+++ b/Release_Notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # LGR-Toolset Release notes
 
+## 1.8.1 (2017-11-15)
+Fixes:
+ - Remove script/mimetype from merged description when all descriptions use the text/html mimetype.
+ - Fix cross-script variants tool: output variants composed of code point which are in other scripts
+   than the one(s) defined in the LGR.
+
 ## 1.8 (2017-10-18)
 Fixes:
  - Merge LGR containing the same code point.
diff --git a/etc/requirements.txt b/etc/requirements.txt
index f3a6107f..af700164 100644
--- a/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ celery[redis]==3.1.23
 # LGR/Unicode modules
 picu==0.8
 munidata==1.2
-lgr-core==1.8
+lgr-core==1.8.1
 
 # Natural sorting implementation
 natsort==5.0.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4803cbe8..a81dee45 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='lgr-django',
-    version='1.8',
+    version='1.8.1',
     author='Viagenie and Wil Tan',
     author_email='support@viagenie.ca',
     packages=find_packages('src'),