diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9feea185c..ca231e160 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+<a name="0.81.0"></a>
+# [0.81.0](https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/compare/v0.80.0...v0.81.0) (2018-10-29)
+
+
+
 <a name="0.80.0"></a>
 # [0.80.0](https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/compare/v0.79.0...v0.80.0) (2018-10-18)
 
diff --git a/js/src/dag/get.js b/js/src/dag/get.js
index 399c64107..0efdcd0f8 100644
--- a/js/src/dag/get.js
+++ b/js/src/dag/get.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ module.exports = (createCommon, options) => {
         (cb) => {
           nodeCbor = {
             someData: 'I am inside a Cbor object',
-            pb: { '/': cidPb.toBaseEncodedString() }
+            pb: cidPb
           }
 
           dagCBOR.util.cid(nodeCbor, (err, cid) => {
diff --git a/js/src/dag/tree.js b/js/src/dag/tree.js
index efbf4a92a..d4444dfdb 100644
--- a/js/src/dag/tree.js
+++ b/js/src/dag/tree.js
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ module.exports = (createCommon, options) => {
         (cb) => {
           nodeCbor = {
             someData: 'I am inside a Cbor object',
-            pb: { '/': cidPb.toBaseEncodedString() }
+            pb: cidPb
           }
 
           dagCBOR.util.cid(nodeCbor, (err, cid) => {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4bf953c23..4f8410cf5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "interface-ipfs-core",
-  "version": "0.80.0",
+  "version": "0.81.0",
   "description": "A test suite and interface you can use to implement a IPFS core interface.",
   "leadMaintainer": "Alan Shaw <alan@tableflip.io>",
   "main": "js/src/index.js",
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     "hat": "0.0.3",
     "ipfs-block": "~0.7.1",
     "ipfs-unixfs": "~0.1.15",
-    "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.12.1",
+    "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.13.0",
     "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.14.5",
     "is-ipfs": "~0.4.2",
     "libp2p-crypto": "~0.13.0",