diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5e897c68b..41052b435 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Flye assembler
 
 [![BioConda Install](https://img.shields.io/conda/dn/bioconda/flye.svg?style=flag&label=BioConda%20install)](https://anaconda.org/bioconda/flye)
 
-### Version: 2.8.2
+### Version: 2.8.3
 
 Flye is a de novo assembler for single molecule sequencing reads,
 such as those produced by PacBio and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Manuals
 Latest updates
 --------------
 
+### Flye 2.8.3 release (10 Feb 2020)
+* Reduced RAM consumption for some ultra-long ONT datasets
+* Fixed rare artifical sequence insertions on some ONT datasets
+* Asseemblies should be largely identical to 2.8
+
 ### Flye 2.8.2 release (12 Dec 2020)
 * Improvements in GFA output, much faster generation of large and tangled graphs
 * Speed improvements for graph simplification algorithms
diff --git a/docs/NEWS.md b/docs/NEWS.md
index a7867a83d..17a1e5cbc 100644
--- a/docs/NEWS.md
+++ b/docs/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Flye 2.8.3 release (10 Feb 2020)
+===============================
+* Reduced RAM consumption for some ultra-long ONT datasets
+* Fixed rare artifical sequence insertions on some ONT datasets
+* Asseemblies should be largely identical to 2.8
+
 Flye 2.8.2 release (12 Dec 2020)
 ===============================
 * Improvements in GFA output, much faster generation of large and tangled graphs
diff --git a/flye/__version__.py b/flye/__version__.py
index 239bf2b2b..764271bc1 100644
--- a/flye/__version__.py
+++ b/flye/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.8.2"
+__version__ = "2.8.3"