diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0909e11e..ccdc0e4f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+v0.8.4 2002-03-13  Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
+
+	* Continuing to fix my stupid mistakes...
+
+	- When a queried nick did a nick change, it might have crashed irssi
+	- read ChangeLog for some other minor changes
+
 v0.8.3 2002-03-13  Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
 
 	- Perl scripts handling channel parts/kicks/quits printed some
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index e0bdb58c..1fe74d0c 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, 0.8.3.CVS)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(irssi, 0.8.4)
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE