diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ae5b3fca..8a5959f6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 authors = ["DetachHead <detachhead@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "a pytest plugin that can run both python and robotframework tests while generating robot reports for them"
 name = "pytest_robotframework"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.8.1"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/detachhead/pytest-robotframework"