chore(main): release 8.1.0 (#840)

Co-authored-by: Dale Hawkins <107309+dkhawk@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: googlemaps-bot

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "8.0.1"
+    ".": "8.1.0"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [8.1.0](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/compare/v8.0.1...v8.1.0) (2026-02-06)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* added anchor and zIndex to Cluster ([#839](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/issues/839)) ([c2f19e4](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/commit/c2f19e45c9dfad7060b47f4b51d43ff5dca326f7))
+
 ## [8.0.1](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/compare/v8.0.0...v8.0.1) (2026-01-29)
 
 

README.md

@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ You no longer need to specify the Maps SDK for Android or its Utility Library as
 
 ```groovy
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose:8.0.1' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose:8.1.0' // {x-release-please-version}
     // Optionally, you can include the Compose utils library for Clustering,
     // Street View metadata checks, etc.
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-utils:8.0.1' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-utils:8.1.0' // {x-release-please-version}
     // Optionally, you can include the widgets library for ScaleBar, etc.
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-widgets:8.0.1' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-widgets:8.1.0' // {x-release-please-version}
 }
 ```
 

build.gradle.kts

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ val projectArtifactId by extra { project: Project ->
 allprojects {
     group = "com.google.maps.android"
     // {x-release-please-start-version}
-    version = "8.0.1"
+    version = "8.1.0"
     // {x-release-please-end}
 }