diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a16ad4059..30541f9fd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-=== Transmission 2.80 (2013/xx/yy) ===
+=== Transmission 2.80 (2013/06/25) ===
 [http://trac.transmissionbt.com/query?milestone=2.80&group=component&order=severity All tickets closed by this release]
 ==== All Platforms ====
   * Support renaming a transfer's files and folders
+  * Remove the most frequent thread locks in libtransmission (ie, fewer beachballs)
+  * Show the free disk space available when adding torrent
+  * Faster reading and parsing of local data files
   * Better use of the OS's filesystem cache
   * Lengthen the prefetch cache for data sent to peers
-  * Faster parsing of JSON data and bencoded data
-  * Fewer public API calls in libtransmission need thread locks (ie, fewer beachballs)
-  * Other CPU speedups
-  * Replace the previous JSON parser with jsonsl to resolve DFSG license issue
-  * Fix FTBFS when compiling with -Werror=format-security
-  * Add 'freespace' argument to session-get in the Remote API
+  * Other small speedups
+  * Replace the previous JSON parser with jsonsl to resolve DFSG licensing issue
+  * Fix fails-to-build when compiling with -Werror=format-security
   * Improved unit tests in libtransmission
   * Tarballs are now released only in .xz format
 ==== Mac Client ====
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f60a49640..06aae912c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ dnl STATUS: "X" for prerelease beta builds,
 dnl         "Z" for unsupported trunk builds,
 dnl         "0" for stable, supported releases
 dnl these should be the only two lines you need to change
-m4_define([user_agent_prefix],[2.77+])
-m4_define([peer_id_prefix],[-TR277Z-])
+m4_define([user_agent_prefix],[2.80])
+m4_define([peer_id_prefix],[-TR2800-])
 
 AC_INIT([transmission],[user_agent_prefix],[http://trac.transmissionbt.com/newticket])
 AC_SUBST(USERAGENT_PREFIX,[user_agent_prefix])