diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2c10ece34..d1a1f125f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-08-15  Rob Adams  <readams@readams.net>
+
+	* configure.in: Bump version to 2.8.4
+
 2004-08-15  Rob Adams  <readams@readams.net>
 
 	* NEWS: 2.8.3 release
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 668179f27..9ed2e0d58 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 # we'll hold the 2.8.x versioning for GNOME 2.8, it was also used
 # for GNOME 2.6, then after GNOME 2.8 we'll have the numbers synced
 # with GNOME
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(metacity, 2.8.3)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(metacity, 2.8.4)
 
 # Honor aclocal flags
 ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"