diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 7b18dde..496c9c8 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
-Another file that automake insists on.
-
-Written by
+Originally written by:
 
 Paul Warren, pdw@ex-parrot.com
 Chris Lightfoot, chris@ex-parrot.com
 
-Mangled for Solaris by
-
-Jonathan Abbey, jonabbey@ganymeta.org
+Other contributors are acknolwedged in ChangeLog.
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 02bcd04..df91806 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(iftop, "1.0pre2")
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(iftop, "1.0pre3")
 
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(IFTOP_VERSION, "$VERSION", [The iftop version number])