diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dae6e56d..0909e11e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+v0.8.3 2002-03-13  Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
+
+	- Perl scripts handling channel parts/kicks/quits printed some
+	  errors.
+	- Connecting to IPv6 servers without IPv4 record didn't work
+	- When queries were auto-created by you using /MSG and you had
+	  /SET autoclose_query non-zero, the query was always destroyed
+	  almost immediately.
+	- Fix to some stupid ircds not sending us 001 numeric, but
+	  beginning from MOTD
+
 v0.8.2 2002-03-11  Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
 
 	* Changed the list of scripts distributed with irssi. Separated
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d8e2e932..50ebe7bc 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ if test -n "`grep '^#undef VERSION' config.h.in`"; then
 fi
 
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(irssi, 0.8.2.CVS)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(irssi, 0.8.3)
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE