diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt
index 03bd330..681cb35 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@
  * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
    older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
 
+ * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
+   affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
+
+ * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
+   versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
+   unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
+   distros.
+
  * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from
    /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug
    lost the "user@" part.
@@ -22,7 +30,18 @@
  * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
    being on a detached HEAD, errored out.
 
+ * "git cherry-pick" did not replay a root commit to an unborn branch.
+
+ * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
+   killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
+
  * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions
    of Git.
 
+ * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
+   has been broken since v1.7.12.
+
+ * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
+   dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
+
 Also contains various documentation fixes.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 2764912..c7f211e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.8.1.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.1]
+* link:v1.8.1.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.3]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt[1.8.1.3],
+  link:RelNotes/1.8.1.2.txt[1.8.1.2],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt[1.8.1.1],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.1.txt[1.8.1].
 
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 2edb996..07685f4 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.1.2
+DEF_VER=v1.8.1.3
 
 LF='
 '