diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f424888..63a571b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Nov 25 17:28:53 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* libxml.spec.in configure.in: add a line in %changelog for releases
+
 Mon Nov 25 14:18:27 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* parser.c: patch from Marcus Clarke fixing a problem in entities
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d649326..d318f70 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -643,6 +643,10 @@
 AC_SUBST(M_LIBS)
 AC_SUBST(RDL_LIBS)
 
+dnl for the spec file
+RELDATE=`date +'%a %b %e %Y'`
+AC_SUBST(RELDATE)
+
 rm -f rm COPYING.LIB COPYING
 ln -s Copyright COPYING
 
diff --git a/libxml.spec.in b/libxml.spec.in
index e826e68..b33664d 100644
--- a/libxml.spec.in
+++ b/libxml.spec.in
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@
 %doc doc/python.html
 
 %changelog
+* @RELDATE@ Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+- upstream release @VERSION@ see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
+
 * Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 - revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems