diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ec9ec38b46668cae0594b0cd6afa5b3d487c363b..7831a39e7b28baec0ee3b636dfd3a8da76f84063 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.8.4 - October 2003
+0.8.4 - October 4, 2003
 - Added AIX sound driver from Stefan Tibus <sjti@gmx.net>
 - Committed some fixes from the Fink project to allow compiling on
   OS X (still with all the dlcompat stuff)
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
   including HP-UX and *BSD.
 - Memory/resource leak fixes
 - Significant fixes to ALSA 0.9.x plugin by Kevin Cody, Jr.  This
-  should fix stuttering audio for mpg321 users.
+  should fix stuttering audio for mpg321 users.  The
+  --enable-alsa09-mmap option to ./configure turns on memory-mapped
+  I/O.  Note this is an experimental feature and causes some problems
+  with some sound card drivers and also users of the dmix software mixer.
 
 0.8.3 - July 2002
 - fix to ao.m4 macro
diff --git a/libao.spec b/libao.spec
index 0d9b44aebcbc39ec22d09f76acf4136e11d51628..71f6f5e5fe18ac055b6e957dde868b42283cecc7 100644
--- a/libao.spec
+++ b/libao.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:		libao
-Version:	0.8.3
+Version:	0.8.4
 Release:	1
 Summary:	Cross-Platform Audio Output Library
 
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 BuildRequires:  glibc-devel
 BuildRequires: 	esound-devel >= 0.2.8
 BuildRequires: 	arts-devel
-BuildRequires: 	alsa-lib-devel >= 0.9.0
 # FIXME: perl is needed for the dirty configure flag trick, which should be
 # solved differently
 BuildRequires:  perl
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/ao/*/liboss.so
 %{_libdir}/ao/*/libesd.so
 %{_libdir}/ao/*/libarts.so
-%{_libdir}/ao/*/libalsa09.so
 %{_mandir}/man5/*
 
 %files devel
@@ -81,8 +79,14 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/libao.a
 %{_libdir}/ao/*/*.a
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/ao.m4
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/ao.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct 4 2002 Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org> 0.8.4-1
+- Remove alsa libraries from RPM since RedHat doesn't ship with ALSA
+  ALSA users will need to recompile from source.
+- Add ao.pc to -devel
+
 * Fri Jul 19 2002 Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org> 0.8.3-2
 - re-disable static libraries (they do not work - at all)