From cfd341865349f6726160ca6e952f8718c33c86f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Babokin <babokin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:43:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] News and ReleaseNotes update.

---
 docs/ReleaseNotes.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 docs/news.rst         |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt b/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt
index 722175ec..2761a056 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+=== v1.8.1 === (31 December 2014)
+
+A minor update of ``ispc`` with several important stability fixes, namely:
+
+* Auto-dispatch mechanism is fixed in pre-built Linux binaries (it used to
+  select too conservative target).
+
+* Compile crash with "-O2 -g" is fixed.
+
+Also KNC (Xeon Phi) support is further improved.
+
+The release includes experimental build for Sony PlayStation4 target (Windows
+cross compiler), as well NVPTX experimental support (64 bit Linux binaries
+only). Note that there might be NVPTX compilation fails with CUDA 7.0.
+
+Similar to 1.8.0 all binaries are based on LLVM 3.5. MacOS binaries are built
+for MacOS 10.9 Mavericks. Linux binaries are compatible with kernel 2.6.32
+(ok for RHEL6) and later.
+
 === v1.8.0 === (16 October 2014)
 
 A major new version of ISPC, which introduces experimental support for NVPTX
diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index cc29b39b..06286cb7 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 ispc News
 =========
 
+ispc 1.8.1 is Released
+----------------------
+
+A minor update of ``ispc`` with several important stability fixes has been
+released. Problem with auto-dispatch on Linux is fixed (affects only pre-built
+binaries), the problem with -O2 -g is also fixed. There are several
+improvements in Xeon Phi support. Similar to 1.8.0 all binaries are based on
+LLVM 3.5.
+
 ispc 1.8.0 is Released
 ----------------------