diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0d6b40c34..668e3fbee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+1.8.3
+=====
+- Thunar sometimes mounts USB drives with root permission (Bug #14719)
+- FreeBSD -Thunar crash due to passing null to strcmp() (Bug #15059)
+- Add support for org.freedesktop.FileManager1 (Bug #12414)
+- Still 8sec delay on logout when there is an open thunar window (Bug #15008)
+- Thunar does not recover directories opened in a previous session (Bug #14969)
+- Thunar utilizes 100%CPU when the parent directory is not readable (Bug #14900)
+- Add support for CTRL+Z in rename dialog (Bug #14956)
+- Thunar rarely freezes when switching to tree-view (#14960)
+- Crash in tree-view when multiple windows are open (Bug #14714)
+- Improve description of UCA command parameters (Bug #14720)
+- Fixed some Warnings and GLib-GObject-CRITICAL messages
+- Translation updates: Albanian, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
+Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Finnish, Galician,
+German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
+Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian,
+Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
+
 1.8.2
 =====
 - Custom actions without an icon could caused the file manager to crash (Bug #14464)
@@ -120,6 +139,33 @@ Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrain
   Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish,
   Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur, Vietnamese
 
+1.6.16
+======
+- Thunar sometimes mounts USB drives with root permission (Bug #14719)
+- FreeBSD -Thunar crash due to passing null to strcmp() (Bug #15059)
+- 100%CPU when the parent directory is not readable in tree-view (Bug #14900)
+- Add support for CTRL+Z in rename dialog (Bug #14956)
+- Thunar rarely freezes when switching to tree-view (#14960)
+- Crash in tree-view when multiple windows are open (Bug #14714)
+- Avoid segfault on file operations (Bug #14281)
+- Translation updates: Amharic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Catalan,
+Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian,
+Czech, Danish, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Esperanto,
+Estonian, French, Galician, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian,
+Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Persian (Iran),
+Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Telugu, Thai, Turkish,
+Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur, Vietnamese
+
+1.6.15
+======
+- Thunar confuses files (bug #12435)
+- Thunar User Configurable Actions do not work for remote locations (bug #7652), patch from (bug#7305)
+- replaced links to "http://thunar.xfce.org/" with "https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/Start/"
+- SIGSEGV when thumbnailer is under heavy load after opening many tabs (bug #13756)
+- Fixed creation of .desktop file when dropping URL into folder (bug #14239)
+- Restoring non-empty folders leaves copy in Trash (bug #13535)
+- Translation updates: Catalan, Persian (Iran), Portuguese, Swedish
+
 1.6.14
 ======
 - Do not translate "Trash" files and folders (Bug #14211)
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index a137aedd7..292a88177 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ m4_define([thunarx_verinfo], [0:0:0])
 m4_define([thunarx_version_api], [3])
 m4_define([thunar_version_major], [1])
 m4_define([thunar_version_minor], [8])
-m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [2])
+m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [3])
 m4_define([thunar_version_nano], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version], [thunar_version_major().thunar_version_minor().thunar_version_micro()ifelse(thunar_version_nano(), [], [], [.thunar_version_nano()])ifelse(thunar_version_tag(), [git], [thunar_version_tag()-thunar_version_build()], [thunar_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl *******************************************