diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 05ea5c1..26a5aaf 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-speechd-el 2.2 released
+speechd-el 2.3 released
 =======================
 
-The Free(b)soft project is pleased to announce speechd-el 2.2.
+The Free(b)soft project is pleased to announce speechd-el 2.3.
 
 * What is speechd-el?
 
@@ -44,23 +44,20 @@ The Free(b)soft project is pleased to announce speechd-el 2.2.
   Emacspeak) can be found on its web page, see
   http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el .
 
-* What is new in the 2.2 version?
+* What is new in the 2.3 version?
 
-  - Support for new BrlAPI protocol introduced in BRLTTY 3.8.
+  - Buffer names in speechd-speak-connections are regexps now.
 
-  - New BRLTTY key handler for general character input.
+  - Braille key handling improvements.
 
-  - New command speechd-set-synthesizer-voice to select synthesizer
-    voices directly.
-
-  - Moved to GPL3.
+  - Automatic restarts of broken SSIP and BrlAPI connections.
 
   See the NEWS file for more details.
 
 * Where to get it?
   
   You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
-  http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd-el/speechd-el-2.2.tar.gz .
+  http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd-el/speechd-el-2.3.tar.gz .
 
   The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el .
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 766ceb0..78c085d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Makefile for speechd-el
-# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Brailcom, o.p.s.
+# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 Brailcom, o.p.s.
 
 # COPYRIGHT NOTICE
 #
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 EMACS = emacs
 
 NAME = speechd-el
-VERSION = 2.2
+VERSION = 2.3
 DISTDIR = $(NAME)-$(VERSION)
 TARFILE = $(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1d483ad..0be1c37 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 User-visible changes to speechd-el:
 
+* Changes in speechd-el 2.3
+
+** Buffer names in speechd-speak-connections are regexps now.
+
+** Braille key handling improvements.
+
+** Automatic restarts of broken SSIP and BrlAPI connections.
+
+
 * Changes in speechd-el 2.2
 
 ** Support for new BrlAPI protocol introduced in BRLTTY 3.8.
diff --git a/speechd-el.texi b/speechd-el.texi
index e7f49d4..b64abb1 100644
--- a/speechd-el.texi
+++ b/speechd-el.texi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 \input texinfo    @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @comment %**start of header
 @setfilename speechd-el.info
-@set VERSION 2.2
+@set VERSION 2.3
 @settitle speechd-el @value{VERSION}
 @syncodeindex fn cp
 @syncodeindex ky cp