diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 2e3adb80f7c84f5a788cb6197a5528389da860e6..c716ae89899456e23478c9d3725962f52dd26c7e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.8.3 - July 2002
+- fix to ao.m4 macro
+- minor alsa09 plugin updates
+- fixes to irix plugin
+
 0.8.2 - December 2001
 - alsa09 plugin updated
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 51a8f9a14a9559b93f8b7a09fd9a086131173716..ec2595883fee281abe92df6811908aa98f2bf937 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-libao - A Cross-platform Audio Library, Version 0.8.2
+libao - A Cross-platform Audio Library, Version 0.8.3
 
 Originally Copyright (C) Aaron Holtzman - May 1999
 Changes Copyright (C) Stan Seibert - July 2000
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ null driver to be compiled into the library.)  Jack Moffitt got it
 supporting dynamically loaded plugins so that binary versions of libao
 could be provided.  The API was revised for version 0.8.0.
 
-This code is being maintained by Stan Seibert (indigo@aztec.asu.edu) 
+This code is being maintained by Stan Seibert (volsung@xiph.org) 
 and various other individuals.  Please DO NOT annoy Aaron Holtzman about 
 bugs, features, comments, etc. regarding this code.
 
diff --git a/ao.m4 b/ao.m4
index 85f0ad7e7ad9c123fb846078c297589f53477342..697af72a53c94120f0f8039b3d770af344c67eea 100644
--- a/ao.m4
+++ b/ao.m4
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(aotest, [  --disable-aotest       Do not try to compile and run a
   # see where dl* and friends live
   AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dlopen, [AO_DL_LIBS=""], [
     AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen, [AO_DL_LIBS="-ldl"], [
-      AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find dlopen() needed by libao sound drivers
+      AC_MSG_WARN([could not find dlopen() needed by libao sound drivers
       your system may not be supported.])
     ])
   ])
diff --git a/libao.spec b/libao.spec
index e88f9379abae0030d7e0fb4c3852c770ba726b02..bf6dfbb1d6347d60e75817c4f20a11190800ab2b 100644
--- a/libao.spec
+++ b/libao.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Release:	4
 Group:		Libraries/Multimedia
 Copyright:	GPL
 URL:		http://www.xiph.org/
-Vendor:		Xiphophorus <team@xiph.org>
+Vendor:		Xiph.org Foundation <team@xiph.org>
 Source:		http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 BuildRequires: esound-devel >= 0.2.8