diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8dd64b2..4bf4503 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released
+Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected.
+
 Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released
 Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives.
 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
diff --git a/build/version b/build/version
index 947dab5..3b77350 100644
--- a/build/version
+++ b/build/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2008002
+2008003
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 194aa7f..818a36f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 dnl In particular, this allows the version macro to be used in AC_INIT
 
 dnl These first two version numbers are updated automatically on each release.
-m4_define([LIBARCHIVE_VERSION_S],[2.8.2])
-m4_define([LIBARCHIVE_VERSION_N],[2008002])
+m4_define([LIBARCHIVE_VERSION_S],[2.8.3])
+m4_define([LIBARCHIVE_VERSION_N],[2008003])
 
 dnl bsdtar and bsdcpio versioning tracks libarchive
 m4_define([BSDTAR_VERSION_S],LIBARCHIVE_VERSION_S())
diff --git a/libarchive/archive.h b/libarchive/archive.h
index 1e059f7..f9dbec6 100644
--- a/libarchive/archive.h
+++ b/libarchive/archive.h
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@
  *             (ARCHIVE_API_VERSION * 1000000 + ARCHIVE_API_FEATURE * 1000)
  * #endif
  */
-#define	ARCHIVE_VERSION_NUMBER 2008002
+#define	ARCHIVE_VERSION_NUMBER 2008003
 __LA_DECL int		archive_version_number(void);
 
 /*
  * Textual name/version of the library, useful for version displays.
  */
-#define	ARCHIVE_VERSION_STRING "libarchive 2.8.2"
+#define	ARCHIVE_VERSION_STRING "libarchive 2.8.3"
 __LA_DECL const char *	archive_version_string(void);
 
 #if ARCHIVE_VERSION_NUMBER < 3000000