diff --git a/citus.control b/citus.control
index 9e191bf58..7e2d565c8 100644
--- a/citus.control
+++ b/citus.control
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Citus extension
 comment = 'Citus distributed database'
-default_version = '8.0-13'
+default_version = '8.1-1'
 module_pathname = '$libdir/citus'
 relocatable = false
 schema = pg_catalog
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/citus--8.0-13--8.1-1.sql b/src/backend/distributed/citus--8.0-13--8.1-1.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..297c955cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/citus--8.0-13--8.1-1.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/* citus--8.0-13--8.1-1.sql */
+
+/* bump version to 8.1-1 */
+