diff --git a/RELEASE_HISTORY b/RELEASE_HISTORY
index 48e3fdeb6bbbd9f87605a12baaf7d448644bff5a..9bbc8a949041b974ec48a92afd291533462aac93 100644
--- a/RELEASE_HISTORY
+++ b/RELEASE_HISTORY
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Version 2.8.3 (July-25-2010)
+1. Fixed bug that caused some GFF files to be misinterpreted as VCF.  This prevented the detection of overlaps.
+2. Added a new "-tag" option in bamToBed that allows one to choose the _numeric_ tag that will be used to populate the score field.  For example, one could populate the score field with the alignment score with "-tag AS".
+3. Updated the BamTools API. 
+
+
 Version 2.8.2 (July-18-2010)
 1. Fixed a bug in bedFile.h preventing GFF strands from being read properly.
 2. Fixed a bug in intersectBed that occasionally caused spurious overlaps between BAM alignments and BED features.
diff --git a/src/utils/version/version.h b/src/utils/version/version.h
index cc6c1bbba0dbc2dff564ed9595ef1b020d6cdb48..fdb8078f193defdf392daae00eefd7dd74957b54 100644
--- a/src/utils/version/version.h
+++ b/src/utils/version/version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 
 // define the version.  All tools in the 
 // suite carry the same version number.
-#define VERSION "2.8.2"
+#define VERSION "2.8.3"
 
 #endif /* VERSION_H */