diff --git a/docs/js/templateData.js b/docs/js/templateData.js
index 813a04ecad1ec..fb49ca9b18471 100644
--- a/docs/js/templateData.js
+++ b/docs/js/templateData.js
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ limitations under the License.
 var context={
     "version": "38",
     "dotVersion": "3.8",
-    "fullDotVersion": "3.8.1-SNAPSHOT",
+    "fullDotVersion": "3.8.1",
     "scalaVersion": "2.13"
 };
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 1b402a27a736b..eb4113576016e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ group=org.apache.kafka
 #  - streams/quickstart/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
-version=3.8.1-SNAPSHOT
+version=3.8.1
 scalaVersion=2.13.14
 # Adding swaggerVersion in gradle.properties to have a single version in place for swagger
 # New version of Swagger 2.2.14 requires minimum JDK 11.
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
index b28e9e1cc7015..124e19872841c 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
         <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
-        <version>3.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.8.1</version>
         <relativePath>..</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
index 8933bd35d679f..086a01839fa68 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <kafka.version>3.8.1-SNAPSHOT</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.8.1</kafka.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
index 8859807dfbd84..dac39dbb8f208 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
     <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>3.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.8.1</version>
 
     <name>Kafka Streams :: Quickstart</name>
 
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
index f41f1c06cb2aa..9941ad4db5abe 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 # Instead, in development branches, the version should have a suffix of the form ".devN"
 #
 # For example, when Kafka is at version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, this should be something like "1.0.0.dev0"
-__version__ = '3.8.1.dev0'
+__version__ = '3.8.1'