diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 64ed8504..1bed0158 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 10.8.1
+  - [DOC] Removed a setting recommendation that is no longer applicable for Kafka 2.0+ [#99](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-integration-kafka/pull/99)
+
 ## 10.8.0
   - Added config setting to enable schema registry validation to be skipped when an authentication scheme unsupported
     by the validator is used [#97](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-integration-kafka/pull/97)
diff --git a/docs/input-kafka.asciidoc b/docs/input-kafka.asciidoc
index e80e1482..086fa659 100644
--- a/docs/input-kafka.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/input-kafka.asciidoc
@@ -415,7 +415,6 @@ The maximum delay between invocations of poll() when using consumer group manage
 an upper bound on the amount of time that the consumer can be idle before fetching more records. 
 If poll() is not called before expiration of this timeout, then the consumer is considered failed and 
 the group will rebalance in order to reassign the partitions to another member.
-The value of the configuration `request_timeout_ms` must always be larger than `max_poll_interval_ms`. ???
 
 [id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-max_poll_records"]
 ===== `max_poll_records` 
diff --git a/logstash-integration-kafka.gemspec b/logstash-integration-kafka.gemspec
index 7623e0b5..d925cd8f 100644
--- a/logstash-integration-kafka.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-integration-kafka.gemspec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name            = 'logstash-integration-kafka'
-  s.version         = '10.8.0'
+  s.version         = '10.8.1'
   s.licenses        = ['Apache-2.0']
   s.summary         = "Integration with Kafka - input and output plugins"
   s.description     = "This gem is a Logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline "+