diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8000d4884..fda789c02 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.0.0] - 2018-05-14
+## Changed
+  - Updated readme
+
 ## [0.8.1] - 2018-04-10
 ### Fixed
   - Throw unretriable error for incompatible message format #49
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 87eb64f88..cfe9403e6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "kafkajs",
-  "version": "0.8.1",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
   "description": "A modern Apache Kafka client for node.js",
   "author": "Tulio Ornelas <ornelas.tulio@gmail.com>",
   "main": "index.js",