diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 0ace9827eb20dba98dece59cdb11f03cb400c34e..9ad13680244fd4884dd1d41b68df83e14f9b01ae 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *.cpp	text
 *.h	text
 CMakeLists.txt	text
+*.sh	eol=lf
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc2dae3ad3c37bdf5eb2c7175d6a3731103b13f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.8.1a0.dev0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/make-release.sh b/make-release.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed713a16801cbba37acc57025c2e302e7ee0973b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make-release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+VERSION=`cat VERSION`
+rm ../niflib-${VERSION}-src.zip
+doxygen
+find . -type f -not -wholename "*.git*" -and -not -name ".project" | xargs zip ../niflib-${VERSION}-src.zip