diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4eca51f6..a3fe191b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-03/12/2003 - 1.x.x - WIP
+06/01/2004 - 1.8.1 - Important bug fix and various enhancements.
 	- Add new API function attrib.[hc]:ntfs_attr_map_whole_runlist().
 	- Add new API function runlist.[hc]:ntfs_rl_pread().
 	- Fix bug in run list encoding functions that hit sparse and compressed
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d1ddadda..24a4400f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Current news
 ============
 
+ntfsprogs should now compile with DJGPP under DOS, too.  Thanks to Christophe
+Grenier.
+
 Merged the NTFS Gnome VFS module by Jan Kratochvil.
 
 Added new utilities: ntfsclone by Szakacsits Szabolcs, ntfscluster by Richard
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f98bf20b..920b2a2b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57 for ntfsprogs 1.8.0.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57 for ntfsprogs 1.8.1.
 #
 # Report bugs to <linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>.
 #
@@ -427,8 +427,8 @@ SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='ntfsprogs'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='ntfsprogs'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='1.8.0'
-PACKAGE_STRING='ntfsprogs 1.8.0'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='1.8.1'
+PACKAGE_STRING='ntfsprogs 1.8.1'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net'
 
 ac_unique_file="config.h.in"
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures ntfsprogs 1.8.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures ntfsprogs 1.8.1 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of ntfsprogs 1.8.0:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of ntfsprogs 1.8.1:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit 0
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-ntfsprogs configure 1.8.0
+ntfsprogs configure 1.8.1
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57
 
 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ cat >&5 <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by ntfsprogs $as_me 1.8.0, which was
+It was created by ntfsprogs $as_me 1.8.1, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@ fi
 
 # Define the identity of the package.
  PACKAGE=ntfsprogs
- VERSION=1.8.0
+ VERSION=1.8.1
 
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
@@ -11149,7 +11149,7 @@ _ASBOX
 } >&5
 cat >&5 <<_CSEOF
 
-This file was extended by ntfsprogs $as_me 1.8.0, which was
+This file was extended by ntfsprogs $as_me 1.8.1, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -11212,7 +11212,7 @@ _ACEOF
 
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF
 ac_cs_version="\\
-ntfsprogs config.status 1.8.0
+ntfsprogs config.status 1.8.1
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57,
   with options \\"`echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 97846e5f..fdeea028 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT(ntfsprogs, 1.8.0, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net)
+AC_INIT(ntfsprogs, 1.8.1, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net)
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET([])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([config.h.in])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])