diff --git a/vsn.mk b/vsn.mk
index abb8459e1..dcaa89cad 100644
--- a/vsn.mk
+++ b/vsn.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-YAWS_VSN=1.82
+YAWS_VSN=1.83
 
 
diff --git a/www/news b/www/news
index a598079a2..6f06b7612 100644
--- a/www/news
+++ b/www/news
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Jul  3 15:43:03 CEST 2009
+New stats feature added by Olivier Girondel whereby (optionally) stats is collected for a virt server. Stats available from comand line (yaws --stats). There are also plugins for munin to graph the statistics.
+The authmod code should now be backwards compatible (faal)
+fixes for traffic tracing in reverse proxy mode (Olivier Girondel)
+Better error msg if erl is not found for win32 users (klacke)
+
 Wed Jun 24 20:42:51 CEST 2009
 An unfortunate backwards incompatibility crept in to the 1.82 release. Authentication is now backwards compat.
 eliminate io_lib:format overhead in yaws_log:fmtnow (Steve)