From 8db93b5190f90c02067d101b02e0bd96299497a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Bointon <marcus@synchromedia.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:18:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 6.8.1

---
 README.md         | 2 +-
 VERSION           | 2 +-
 changelog.md      | 7 +++++++
 src/PHPMailer.php | 2 +-
 src/POP3.php      | 2 +-
 src/SMTP.php      | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 21771b7c7..878274f48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ This software is distributed under the [LGPL 2.1](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lg
 PHPMailer is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/phpmailer/phpmailer) (using semantic versioning), and installation via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is the recommended way to install PHPMailer. Just add this line to your `composer.json` file:
 
 ```json
-"phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.8.0"
+"phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.8.1"
 ```
 
 or run
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8a1c5c7e9..23863d3de 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.8.0
\ No newline at end of file
+6.8.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 84824fc0d..ef8633871 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # PHPMailer Change Log
 
+## Version 6.8.1 (August 29th, 2023)
+* Don't reflect malformed DSNs in error messages to avert any risk of XSS
+* Improve Simplified Chinese, Sinhalese, and Norwegian translations
+* Don't use `setAccessible` in PHP >= 8.1 in tests
+* Avoid a deprecation notice in PHP 8.3
+* Fix link in readme
+
 ## Version 6.8.0 (March 6th, 2023)
 * Add DSN parsing class, thanks to @voronkovich
 * Fix some name edge cases, expand tests
diff --git a/src/PHPMailer.php b/src/PHPMailer.php
index 81a2d667a..7f56ea234 100644
--- a/src/PHPMailer.php
+++ b/src/PHPMailer.php
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ class PHPMailer
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.8.0';
+    const VERSION = '6.8.1';
 
     /**
      * Error severity: message only, continue processing.
diff --git a/src/POP3.php b/src/POP3.php
index d025689e8..b92a1f248 100644
--- a/src/POP3.php
+++ b/src/POP3.php
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class POP3
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.8.0';
+    const VERSION = '6.8.1';
 
     /**
      * Default POP3 port number.
diff --git a/src/SMTP.php b/src/SMTP.php
index 3deee6fd9..2b6384030 100644
--- a/src/SMTP.php
+++ b/src/SMTP.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class SMTP
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.8.0';
+    const VERSION = '6.8.1';
 
     /**
      * SMTP line break constant.