diff --git a/nextflowspawner/__init__.py b/nextflowspawner/__init__.py
index 9f6a289..40e299a 100644
--- a/nextflowspawner/__init__.py
+++ b/nextflowspawner/__init__.py
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ def options_from_form(self, formdata):
 
     def get_env(self):
         env = super().get_env()
+        env['HOME'] = self.home_dir
         env['NXF_HOME'] = self.nxf_home
         env['NXF_USER_WORKFLOW'] = self.workflow_url
         env['NXF_USER_REVISION'] = self.workflow_revision
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3a10e74..e6ba3c9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
   name="nextflowspawner",
-  version='0.8.0',
+  version='0.8.1',
   url="https://github.com/phue/nextflowspawner",
   description="Spawn Nextflow pipelines from Jupyterhub and configure them interactively",  
   author="Patrick Hüther",