diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6be777332178533324017b2fd48984abf386e317..b348c7845c4c55207cffa882a10ed15b1cffc161 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ File `config.json`:
 ```
 
 A new tag value (program version) with an optional comment is assigned to the 
-repository. This leads to an update of the `VERSION` file and, if a webhook 
+current branch. This leads to an update of the `VERSION` file and, if a webhook 
 (tag push) is activated, to an update of the server installation. The Flask 
 server must run in development mode for this.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @VALID.xml http://localhost:5005/val
 
 Alternative call with `wget`:
 ```shell
-wget --post-file=example.xml --header="Content-Type:text/xml;" -q -O- http://localhost:5005/validate 
+wget --post-file=example.xml --header="Content-Type:text/xml" -q -O- http://localhost:5005/validate 
 ```
 
 ```shell
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @INVALID.xml http://localhost:5005/v
 ```
 
 ```shell
-curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @VALID_XML_BUT_DONT_MATCHES_XSD.xml http://localhost:5005/validate
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @VALID_BUT_DONT_MATCHES_XSD.xml http://localhost:5005/validate
 
 <error>verbose error message</error>
 ```
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a3df0a6959e154733da89a5d6063742ce6d5b851..6f4eebdf6f68fc72411793cdb19e3f1715b117f3 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.0
+0.8.1