diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 46c222c..6312a03 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 /libxsmm-1.6.3.tar.gz
 /libxsmm-1.8.tar.gz
 /libxsmm-1.8.1.tar.gz
+/libxsmm-1.8.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/libxsmm.spec b/libxsmm.spec
index 6838088..30619e1 100644
--- a/libxsmm.spec
+++ b/libxsmm.spec
@@ -22,17 +22,17 @@
 %bcond_with devtoolset
 %endif
 
-# See check stanza
-%global test 0
+%global somajor 1
+%global sominor 9
 
 Name:		libxsmm
-Version:	1.8.1
-Release:	5%{?dist}
+Version:	1.8.3
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Small dense or sparse matrix multiplications and convolutions for x86_64
 License:	BSD
 URL:		https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm
 Source0:	https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/archive/%version.tar.gz#/libxsmm-%version.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:	gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ python %{?test:openblas-devel}
+BuildRequires:	gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ python openblas-devel
 %if %{with devtoolset}
 BuildRequires:	devtoolset-7-gcc-gfortran devtoolset-7-gcc-c++
 %endif
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ PATH=/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin:$PATH
 %endif
 # OpenMP is only used by libxsmmext, so no need to turn it off.
 # SSE=0 avoids -msse3, given the packaging baseline of SSE2.
-%global makeflags STATIC=0 SYM=1 SSE=0 AVX=0 LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}" VERSION_MAJOR=1 VERSION_MINOR=9
+# Avoid the ld hardening flags for now so the test works; see
+# https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm/issues/204
+%global makeflags STATIC=0 SYM=1 SSE=0 AVX=0 VERSION_MAJOR=%somajor VERSION_MINOR=%sominor # LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}"
 make %{?_smp_mflags} %makeflags
 
 
@@ -122,28 +124,23 @@ popd
 
 
 %check
-# Fixme: This rebuilds the libraries (and currently fails due to not
-# linking with -fopenmp).  Disabled pending upstream query.
-%if %{?test}
 make test TEST=1 %makeflags
 rm -r samples/cp2k/{cp2k,build}
-%endif
 
 
 %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 
-%{!?_licensedir:%global license %doc}
-
 %files
-%license LICENSE
-%_libdir/*.so.*
+%license LICENSE.md
+%_libdir/libxsmm*.so.%{somajor}*
 
 %files devel
 %doc README.md
-%_libdir/*.so
-%_includedir/*
+%_libdir/libxsmm*.so
+%_includedir/libxsmm.f
+%_includedir/libxsmm*.h
 %_bindir/libxsmm_gemm_generator
 %_bindir/libxsmm_conv_generator
 %_bindir/libxsmm_convwino_generator
@@ -159,10 +156,15 @@ rm -r samples/cp2k/{cp2k,build}
 
 %files doc
 %doc README.md documentation/* samples
-%license LICENSE
+%license LICENSE.md
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar  8 2018 Dave Love <loveshack@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.3-1
+- Update to 1.8.3 (#1528828)
+- Fix running test
+- Modify %%files for distribution changes and to specify lib soversion
+
 * Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.1-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2acc7bc..285895e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libxsmm-1.8.1.tar.gz) = 30388de1edf46ae40b2ccdf224bd9febd1ffbb91f8250c89c03044fe1ea75754ce5155107ec9d027fe2e08963f1ac9d2e526ea84618d2cf50c2d5dfe8a1e074d
+SHA512 (libxsmm-1.8.3.tar.gz) = 8fbe6e2b41886d98ba953ab7c7d718663fbaca4802ec202ac9a97635e2d2b106b779e55be55a817a0a80117cc01b208858451ca78d30b4bb104658c85d8575ef