diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 27a9de0..5841183 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,61 @@ ADR-007 and ADR-002.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.8.1] - 2026-08-05
+
+Everything here shipped after v0.8.0 was tagged the same morning, driven by two
+sites putting real data in for the first time. Most of it is defects that only
+appear when somebody who did not build the software tries to use it.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- A blank optional code could be saved once and never again. A unique nullable
+  column accepts any number of NULLs but exactly one empty string, so the second
+  business unit with no code collided with the first and returned 500 from a
+  field the form correctly showed as optional. Blank now stores as NULL, which
+  covers every unique nullable column - asset numbers, hostnames, item codes,
+  subnet names, gage-lab tags - not just the one that was reported. A genuine
+  duplicate answers 409 with a readable message instead of a bare 500.
+- A lobby display with exactly two slides never changed between them. The
+  slideshow was started twice, and two timer chains advancing one slide each
+  landed back on the first every cycle. With three or more slides it advanced by
+  two and merely skipped one, which is why it went unnoticed. The per-slide
+  duration the feed has always sent was also ignored in favour of a hardcoded
+  ten seconds.
+- Clicking slightly outside a modal discarded a part-filled form, in 35 modals
+  across 30 files. Confirmation dialogs still dismiss that way, since they hold
+  nothing to lose.
+- Selecting a filter while past page one returned an empty list, because the
+  filter asked for page five of a result set that now had one page.
+- Model photos could not be saved: an uploaded photo sets the field to an
+  application path, and the input was type="url", which demands an absolute
+  address. The upload button was also hidden when creating a model.
+- An empty bordered box appeared after Notes on the network device form.
+
+### Added
+
+- The equipment catalog travels. `flask seed catalog` loads 53 vendors, 128
+  models with photos, 146 printer supply part numbers and every type vocabulary,
+  so a new site can start adding printers immediately instead of retyping a
+  catalog another site spent a year building. Idempotent and additive; catalog
+  only, with nothing site-specific. Offered by the installer as a tick-box and
+  by the operator console.
+- `shopdb-admin.ps1 repair` completes an interrupted provisioning, and `check`
+  now says when a server is not fully provisioned instead of leaving it to be
+  inferred from 500s on unrelated pages.
+- Network devices can be linked to a catalog model, and their map position is
+  picked on the floor plan rather than typed as coordinates.
+- An asset's vendor and type can be derived from its catalog model, by exact
+  name match only, with a reviewable backfill script.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Labels say whose type they mean: Machine Type, PC Type, Printer Type, Device
+  Type, next to the catalog's Model type.
+- The 3D parts kiosk label prefix is a setting rather than one site's initials
+  hardcoded in the source.
+- The operator console menu is grouped by what each action touches.
+
 ## [0.8.0] - 2026-08-05
 
 First release to carry the Windows installer. Everything below shipped after
@@ -603,7 +658,8 @@ letting other GE Aerospace sites stand up their own self-hosted instance
   integration that passed the key as a query parameter. See
   `docs/COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md`.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.8.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.8.1...HEAD
+[0.8.1]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.8.0...v0.8.1
 [0.8.0]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.7.0...v0.8.0
 [0.7.0]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0
 [0.6.0]: https://gitea.proudtech.net/ge-aerospace/shopdb-flask/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0
diff --git a/docs/openapi.json b/docs/openapi.json
index 474a11e..5bf29b0 100644
--- a/docs/openapi.json
+++ b/docs/openapi.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
   "title": "ShopDB Flask API",
-  "version": "0.8.0",
+  "version": "0.8.1",
   "description": "Asset-management API (core + plugins). Responses use a `success_response` envelope: `{status, data, meta}`. Auth: Bearer JWT (login or a managed PAT) for `jwt`/`admin`/`permission:*`; `X-API-Key` for collector/managed-token endpoints; public endpoints need neither."
  },
  "servers": [
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 3ca7bbb..b83df5c 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "shopdb-frontend",
-  "version": "0.8.0",
+  "version": "0.8.1",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/shopdb/__init__.py b/shopdb/__init__.py
index c858280..c428366 100644
--- a/shopdb/__init__.py
+++ b/shopdb/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ __contract_version__ = '0.15.0'
 # plugin-contract version above are distinct series with independent
 # bump rules. Not part of the shopdb.api contract surface, so it is
 # not re-exported there.
-__version__ = '0.8.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
 
 
 def create_app(config_name: str = None) -> Flask: