diff --git a/celery.md b/celery.md
index 5d099e0..24bd23c 100644
--- a/celery.md
+++ b/celery.md
@@ -14,19 +14,28 @@ The easiest way to get going is to [download and install Redis](https://redis.io
 (if you don't already have it) and then run:
 
 ```python
-celery -A {{ project_name }} worker -l info
+celery -A {{ project_name }} worker -l info --pool=solo
 ```
 
-### Running Celery on Windows
+Note that the 'solo' pool is recommended for development but not for production. When running in production,
+you should use a more robust pool implementation such as `prefork` (for CPU bound tasks) or `gevent` (for I/O bound
+tasks).
 
-Celery 4.x [no longer officially supports Windows](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/4.0/whatsnew-4.0.html#removed-features). 
-To use Celery on Windows for development or test purposes, change the concurrency pool implementation to ``gevent`` instead.
+### Running Celery with Gevent
+
+The `gevent` pool is useful when running tasks that are I/O bound which tends to be 90% of tasks. The same
+configuration can also be used to run Celery on Windows (if the `solo` pool is not suitable) since 
+Celery 4.x [no longer officially supports Windows](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/4.0/whatsnew-4.0.html#removed-features).
+
+To use the `gevent` pool, change the concurrency pool implementation to ``gevent`` instead.
 
 ``` console
 pip install gevent
 celery -A {{ project_name }} worker -l info -P gevent
 ```
 
+For more information see the [Celery documentation](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/concurrency/gevent.html).
+
 ## Setup and Configuration
 
 The above setup uses [Redis](https://redis.io/) as a message broker and result backend.
diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index 6e466e3..7ee0e93 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -3,6 +3,45 @@ Version History and Release Notes
 
 Releases of [SaaS Pegasus: The Django SaaS Boilerplate](https://www.saaspegasus.com/) are documented here.
 
+## Version 2024.8.1
+
+This is a maintenance release which upgrades HTMX to version 2.0 and fixes a handful of minor bugs.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Upgraded HTMX to [version 2.0](https://htmx.org/posts/2024-06-17-htmx-2-0-0-is-released/).**
+  See upgrade note below.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed a bug on some environments where `make build-api-client` would wrong relative to the wrong directory.
+  (Thanks Ben for finding and fixing!)
+- Downgraded Postgres from 16 to 14 on Digital Ocean deployments, due to
+  [an issue with permissions on version 16](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-create-a-postgres-16-user-that-has-permission-to-create-tables-on-an-app-platform-dev-database)
+  that was causing new Digital Ocean deployments to fail.
+  (Thanks Panagiotis for reporting!)
+- Switched the default celery pool to [solo](https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/internals/reference/celery.concurrency.solo.html) in development,
+  to fix issues running on Windows. See [updated docs](./celery.md).
+- Updated in-app help hint to recommend running `./manage.py bootstrap_ecommerce` instead of `./manage.py djstripe_sync_models price`.
+  
+### Upgrading
+
+Htmx 2.0 requires loading new extensions.
+If you were loading HTMX extensions in your own templates, you will have to upgrade the location of those to the 2.0 versions.
+
+Before:   
+
+```
+<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org/dist/ext/ws.js" defer></script>
+```
+
+After:
+```
+<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx-ext-ws@2.0.0/ws.js" defer></script>
+```
+
+*August 13, 2024*
+
 ## Version 2024.8
 
 This is a maintenance release with many small updates and fixes.