diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4107e6eb..401ba8ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+ncmpcpp-0.8.1 (????-??-??)
+* Setting 'colors_enabled' to 'no' no longer results in a crash.
+
 ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21)
 * Configuration variable 'execute_on_player_state_change' was added.
 * Support for controlling whether ncmpcpp should display multiple tags as-is or make an effort to hide duplicate values (show_duplicate_tags configuration variable, enabled by default).
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 16c4116d..29985f21 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([ncmpcpp], [0.8])
+AC_INIT([ncmpcpp], [0.8.1_dev])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])