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 Longhorn is beta-quality software. We appreciate your willingness to deploy Longhorn and provide feedback.
 
-The latest release of Longhorn is **v0.8.0**.
+The latest release of Longhorn is **v0.8.1**.
 
 ## Source code
 Longhorn is 100% open source software. Project source code is spread across a number of repos: