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diff --git a/content/core/core_news/2021-02-22-8-8-1-available.md b/content/core/core_news/2021-02-22-8-8-1-available.md
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+Title: Apache Lucene™ 8.8.1 available
+category: core/news
+URL:
+save_as:
+
+The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 8.8.1.
+
+Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
+
+This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html>
+
+### Lucene 8.8.1 Release Highlights:
+
+No changes from 8.8.0
+
+Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of changes:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_8_1/changes/Changes.html>
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diff --git a/content/pages/solr/downloads.md b/content/pages/solr/downloads.md
index 4592408..2fe85a8 100644
--- a/content/pages/solr/downloads.md
+++ b/content/pages/solr/downloads.md
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
Client applications that use a SolrJ version prior to 8.8.0 may experience a NullPointerException in ZkCoreNodeProps when requesting cluster state from Zookeeper. Upgrading your application to use SolrJ 8.8.0 will fix the issue.
-A release with the fix is currently being worked on.
+This back compat break has been fixed in 8.8.1
diff --git a/content/solr/solr_news/2021-02-22-8-8-1-available.md b/content/solr/solr_news/2021-02-22-8-8-1-available.md
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+Title: Apache Solr™ 8.8.1 available
+category: solr/news
+save_as:
+
+The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.8.1.
+
+Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
+
+Solr 8.8.1 is available for immediate download at:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html>
+
+### Solr 8.8.1 Release Highlights:
+
+Fix for a SolrJ backwards compatibility issue when upgrading the server to 8.8.0 without upgrading SolrJ to 8.8.0.
+
+Please refer to the Upgrade Notes in the Solr Ref Guide for information on upgrading from previous Solr versions:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_8/solr-upgrade-notes.html>
+
+Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of bugfixes:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_8_1/changes/Changes.html>
+
+Solr 8.8.1 also includes bugfixes in the corresponding Apache Lucene release:
+
+ <https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_8_1/changes/Changes.html>
diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index 63691f5..195f8dd 100755
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
SITEURL = ''
CURRENTYEAR = date.today().year
-LUCENE_LATEST_RELEASE = '8.8.0'
-LUCENE_LATEST_RELEASE_DATE = datetime(2021, 1, 29)
-LUCENE_PREVIOUS_MAJOR_RELEASE = '7.7.3'
+LUCENE_LATEST_RELEASE = '8.8.1'
+LUCENE_LATEST_RELEASE_DATE = datetime(2021, 2, 22)
+LUCENE_PREVIOUS_MAJOR_RELEASE = '8.7.0'
# This string will be appended to all unversioned css and js resources to prevent caching surprises on edits.
# The theme's htaccess file also sets a cache-control header with longer lifetime, if the v=XXXX query string is added.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 53ac09e..0f26cf2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-pelican==4.2.0
-Markdown>=3.1.1
-checksumdir>=1.0.5
+pelican==4.5.4
+Markdown>=3.3.3
+checksumdir>=1.2.0
# Pelican plugins
-mdx-include==1.3.3
-beautifulsoup4>=4.8.1
+mdx-include==1.4.1
+beautifulsoup4>=4.9.3
# Dev tools
-invoke>=1.3.0
-livereload>=2.6.1
+invoke>=1.5.0
+livereload>=2.6.3
