diff --git a/desktop/last-release b/desktop/last-release
index 1e8b3149..45a4fb75 100644
--- a/desktop/last-release
+++ b/desktop/last-release
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6
+8
diff --git a/desktop/release.sh b/desktop/release.sh
index 2d1c1d63..38139dea 100755
--- a/desktop/release.sh
+++ b/desktop/release.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 gawk -i inplace '  { print $1+1; } ' last-release
+git tag -a v0.1.`cat last-release` -m "tagging version 0.1.`cat last-release`"
 lein do clean, compile, uberjar
 java -jar packr.jar build-windows.json
 java -jar packr.jar build-osx.json