diff --git a/armadillo.changes b/armadillo.changes
index 630f008..8490cae 100644
--- a/armadillo.changes
+++ b/armadillo.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan  8 04:40:56 UTC 2014 - badshah400@gmail.com
+
+- Armadillo no longer depends on boost libraries, and requires
+  arpack-ng instead; adapt build and run-time requirements
+  appropriately
+- Fix baselibs.conf for so name version update
+- Add libatlas3 dependencies as recommended by upstream. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan  6 21:27:36 UTC 2014 - badshah400@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/armadillo.spec b/armadillo.spec
index adf7b6a..fe1bb71 100644
--- a/armadillo.spec
+++ b/armadillo.spec
@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Url:            http://arma.sourceforge.net/
 Source:         http://downloads.sourceforge.net/arma/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
+BuildRequires:  arpack-ng-devel
 BuildRequires:  blas-devel
-BuildRequires:  boost-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  lapack-devel
+BuildRequires:  libatlas3-devel
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -98,9 +99,10 @@ This package provides the documentation for armadillo.
 Summary:        Development headers and documentation for the Armadillo C++ library
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       %{soname} = %{version}
+Requires:       arpack-ng-devel
 Requires:       blas-devel
-Requires:       boost-devel
 Requires:       lapack-devel
+Requires:       libatlas3-devel
 Requires:       libstdc++-devel
 Recommends:     %{name}-doc
 
diff --git a/baselibs.conf b/baselibs.conf
index 3c46ed8..cd4d8bf 100644
--- a/baselibs.conf
+++ b/baselibs.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-libarmadillo3
+libarmadillo4
 armadillo-devel
 	requires -armadillo-<targettype>
-	requires "libarmadillo3-<targettype> = <version>"
+	requires "libarmadillo4-<targettype> = <version>"