diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index 0fdb84068b9a2197d92e22039da549a6bd5fe485..468947cc1a81ca3d1280eed5e62e7b77f9aa6fe4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -41,12 +41,17 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
 
 Foreign interface
 
- * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated;
-   especially, the latter has been accelerated to help Emacs folks,
-   whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
+   been updated; especially, the latter has been accelerated to help
+   Emacs folks, whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
+
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of
+   "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making
+   colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search.
+
  * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
    show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
    replayed during a "git rebase" session.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 7a24aca9d69d66b9cf2b485355acd5da33f71289..d44408d0cf603c879b2d7fa05d2362ee27f23c67 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.3-rc1
+DEF_VER=v1.8.3-rc2
 
 LF='
 '