diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2b8f790..4930f5c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
-project(tinyxml2 VERSION 8.0.0)
+project(tinyxml2 VERSION 8.1.0)
 
 include(CTest)
 option(tinyxml2_BUILD_TESTING "Build tests for tinyxml2" "${BUILD_TESTING}")
diff --git a/dox b/dox
index feebfba..6d3c3ac 100644
--- a/dox
+++ b/dox
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = "TinyXML-2"
 # could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version
 # control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER = 8.0.0
+PROJECT_NUMBER = 8.1.0
 
 # Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
 # for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer a
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ba92027..96fb286 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 project(
     'tinyxml2',
     ['cpp'],
-    version : '8.0.0',
+    version : '8.1.0',
     meson_version : '>= 0.49.0',
 )
 
diff --git a/tinyxml2.h b/tinyxml2.h
index 5da5f2a..05848da 100755
--- a/tinyxml2.h
+++ b/tinyxml2.h
@@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ distribution.
 	http://semver.org/
 */
 static const int TIXML2_MAJOR_VERSION = 8;
-static const int TIXML2_MINOR_VERSION = 0;
+static const int TIXML2_MINOR_VERSION = 1;
 static const int TIXML2_PATCH_VERSION = 0;
 
 #define TINYXML2_MAJOR_VERSION 8
-#define TINYXML2_MINOR_VERSION 0
+#define TINYXML2_MINOR_VERSION 1
 #define TINYXML2_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
 // A fixed element depth limit is problematic. There needs to be a