diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e84239c..16bd8b23 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-automl/#history
 
+## [2.8.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/compare/v2.8.0...v2.8.1) (2022-08-11)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:** allow protobuf < 5.0.0 ([#417](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/issues/417)) ([cbb1fce](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/commit/cbb1fce19f82a8e3e0291ef4856bf28b19d9b198))
+* **deps:** require proto-plus >= 1.22.0 ([cbb1fce](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/commit/cbb1fce19f82a8e3e0291ef4856bf28b19d9b198))
+
 ## [2.8.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/compare/v2.7.3...v2.8.0) (2022-07-19)
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3a98526f..bf2ecb0c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-automl"
 description = "Cloud AutoML API client library"
-version = "2.8.0"
+version = "2.8.1"
 release_status = "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable"
 dependencies = [
     "google-api-core[grpc] >= 1.32.0, <3.0.0dev,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,!=2.6.*,!=2.7.*",