diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04c53e98cc..c3398a2269 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.3:
+* Win32 path delimiter fixes (Guy)
+* clnp fix (Guy)
+* tethereal initialization fix (Guy)
+* Debian packaging files (Olivier)
+* NFS readdir* segfault fix (Uwe)
+* file_seek() fix (Guy)
+* "struct timeval"/"struct bpf_timeval" fix (Guy)
+* TFTP Option Extension (RFC 2347) support (Craig Newell)
+* Menu fixes (Gilbert)
+* PPP sequence number fix (Gilbert)
+* Support for NetXRay WAN traces (Gilbert)
+* X.25 fix (Guy)
+* TCP Follow EBCDIC toggle fix (Gilbert)
+* New get_home_dir() function for HOME env var (Gilbert, Guy)
+* Additional NLPIDs (Guy)
+* New "ethereal_static" make target (Nathan)
+* Capture window close button fix (Nathan)
+* Plugin directory symlink scanning fix (Olivier)
+* Add SNMP trap port to udp dissector (Guy)
+
 Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.2:
 * Add editcap as standard install target (Guy)
 * Add manpage for editcap (Guy)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 3cffd1fb74..79ef23e418 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: configure.in,v 1.81 2000/01/26 02:31:35 gram Exp $
+# $Id: configure.in,v 1.82 2000/02/01 14:12:20 gram Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf 2.13 or later to produce a
 dnl configure script; 2.12 doesn't generate a "configure" script that
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ AC_INIT(etypes.h)
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.13)
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ethereal, 0.8.2)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ethereal, 0.8.3)
 
 dnl Check for CPU / vendor / OS
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST