release cleanup: bump version after 0.8.0

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bb5e120..fb1e45d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
 ## [0.8.0] - 2026-08-03
 
 #### Added
@@ -223,6 +225,7 @@ This version was in fact never released.
 The number was given by the build system since the introduction of autotools in Jan 2014 (ea0fe5a5bf0c04f9cc955b2966b614f5f378c6f6).
 Therefore, this version number does not uniquely identify a set of source files.
 
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.8.0...HEAD
 [0.8.0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.7.1...v0.8.0
 [0.7.1]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.7.0...v0.7.1
 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 32cd03d..7268270 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ project(libsecp256k1
   # The package (a.k.a. release) version is based on semantic versioning 2.0.0 of
   # the API. All changes in experimental modules are treated as
   # backwards-compatible and therefore at most increase the minor version.
-  VERSION 0.8.0
+  VERSION 0.8.1
   DESCRIPTION "Optimized C library for ECDSA signatures and secret/public key operations on curve secp256k1."
   HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1"
   LANGUAGES C
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
 # All changes in experimental modules are treated as if they don't affect the
 # interface and therefore only increase the revision.
 set(${PROJECT_NAME}_LIB_VERSION_CURRENT 7)
-set(${PROJECT_NAME}_LIB_VERSION_REVISION 0)
+set(${PROJECT_NAME}_LIB_VERSION_REVISION 1)
 set(${PROJECT_NAME}_LIB_VERSION_AGE 0)
 
 #=============================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2c8142c..1c6f103 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 # backwards-compatible and therefore at most increase the minor version.
 define(_PKG_VERSION_MAJOR, 0)
 define(_PKG_VERSION_MINOR, 8)
-define(_PKG_VERSION_PATCH, 0)
-define(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
+define(_PKG_VERSION_PATCH, 1)
+define(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, false)
 
 # The library version is based on libtool versioning of the ABI. The set of
 # rules for updating the version can be found here:
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ define(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
 # All changes in experimental modules are treated as if they don't affect the
 # interface and therefore only increase the revision.
 define(_LIB_VERSION_CURRENT, 7)
-define(_LIB_VERSION_REVISION, 0)
+define(_LIB_VERSION_REVISION, 1)
 define(_LIB_VERSION_AGE, 0)
 
 AC_INIT([libsecp256k1],m4_join([.], _PKG_VERSION_MAJOR, _PKG_VERSION_MINOR, _PKG_VERSION_PATCH)m4_if(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, [true], [], [-dev]),[https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/issues],[libsecp256k1],[https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1])