diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 669fcc26f7..0c6c236fc4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <article><title>Nix Release Notes</title>
 
 
-<section><title>Release 0.9</title>
+<section><title>Release 0.9 (September 16, 2005)</title>
 
 <para>NOTE: this version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.3 instead of 4.2.
 The database is upgraded automatically, but you should be careful not
@@ -103,6 +103,24 @@ svnService = derivation {
 
 
 
+<section><title>Release 0.8.1 (April 13, 2005)</title>
+
+<para>This is a bug fix release.</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Patch downloading was broken.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The garbage collector would not delete paths that
+  had references from invalid (but substitutable)
+  paths.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</section>
+
+
+
 <section><title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title>
 
 <para>NOTE: the hashing scheme in Nix 0.8 changed (as detailed below).