diff --git a/python-versiontools.changes b/python-versiontools.changes
index b5e7483..916ee5a 100644
--- a/python-versiontools.changes
+++ b/python-versiontools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  1 13:24:11 UTC 2012 - saschpe@suse.de
+
+- Simplified macro usage
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 24 21:37:26 UTC 2012 - jfunk@funktronics.ca
+
+- Update to 1.8.3:
+  * Fix incorrectly specified line in git support. Previosuly a KeyError
+    may bleed to the outside calling code, depending on python version. 
+  * Fix incorrectly specified line in bzr support. Previously a non-bzr
+    directory could be associated as a malformed bzr branch.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 12 01:53:00 UTC 2012 - jfunk@funktronics.ca
+
+- Update to 1.8.2:
+ * Improve git support by adding code paths compatible with python-git 0.1.6
+   (which is easier to get on Debian)
+ * Change git support to default to short commit id. If you want to access the
+   long commit id you need to access it directly as GitIntegration.commit_id
+- Version 1.8.1
+ * Improve performance when working with checkouts. The use of branch.nick has
+   been replaced with branch._get_nick(local=True). This avoids network
+   operations and is much more responsive.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 21 18:24:32 UTC 2011 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/python-versiontools.spec b/python-versiontools.spec
index c87193c..d4f117c 100644
--- a/python-versiontools.spec
+++ b/python-versiontools.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-versiontools
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@
 # case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a
 # license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
 # published by the Open Source Initiative.
-#
+
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
 Name:           python-versiontools
-Version:        1.8
+Version:        1.8.3
 Release:        0
 Url:            https://launchpad.net/versiontools
 Summary:        Smart replacement for plain tuple used in __version__
@@ -27,13 +27,11 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-distribute
 Requires:       python-distribute
-%if 0%{?suse_version}
-%py_requires
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1110
+%if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
+%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
+%else
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %endif
-%endif
-%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
 
 %description
 Smart replacement for plain tuple used in __version__.
diff --git a/versiontools-1.8.3.tar.gz b/versiontools-1.8.3.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5fe813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/versiontools-1.8.3.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:50ef34822c16a51d918bbc5cd1a04469371602d071d3cf8b4c3a2773fdd914b6
+size 16843
diff --git a/versiontools-1.8.tar.gz b/versiontools-1.8.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d65108..0000000
--- a/versiontools-1.8.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:585c5a8fa2cd7cffa5555d44075e4672a242a666b59eec3e25ba1cff05d97520
-size 16626