diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 80c5de9be904..54a2945c391e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ GDAL 3.8.3 is a bugfix release.
 
 * infback9: fix various build issues with clang 17
 * fix build with sqlite 3.36.x (#9021)
+* fix build of optional utility gdal2ogr
 
 ## GDAL 3.8.3
 
@@ -40,9 +41,12 @@ VRT driver:
   Affects ogr2ogr from GPKG/FlatGeoBuf to something else) (#8998)
 
 GPKG driver:
- * disable by default multi-threaded ArrowArray interface. Make it opt-in with
-   the OGR_GPKG_NUM_THREADS config option
-   (cf https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9018)
+ * Fix error message that sometimes occured with multi-threaded ArrowArray
+   interface, and add OGR_GPKG_NUM_THREADS config option. (#9018, 9030)
+
+GeoJSON driver:
+  * Internal libjson: resync random_seed.c with upstream, and use getrandom()
+    implementation when available (#9024)
 
 # GDAL/OGR 3.8.2 Release Notes
 
diff --git a/gcore/gdal_version.h.in b/gcore/gdal_version.h.in
index 48a4e17434c7..7dea039b384f 100644
--- a/gcore/gdal_version.h.in
+++ b/gcore/gdal_version.h.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 #if !defined(DO_NOT_DEFINE_GDAL_DATE_NAME)
 #ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_DATE
-#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20240103
+#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20240104
 #endif
 #ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_NAME
 #  define GDAL_RELEASE_NAME     "3.8.3"