diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index ff144c2776d776f14ffd3b1202f7991e7131b3a5..99091c7d99294af19404b02ff228afbed5524683 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ wish to install pydspam.
 For basic pymilter you'll need:
 
 python-2.4
-milter-0.8.7
+milter-0.8.10
 sendmail-8.13.x	(with milter support enabled)
 
 and for SPF you'll need:
 
-pydns-2.3.0-2.4
-pyspf-2.0.3-2.py24
+pydns-2.3.3-2.4
+pyspf-2.0.5-1.py24
 
 and for SRS you'll need:
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Start milter and pysrs with "service milter start", "service pysrs start".
 Tail /var/log/milter/milter.log while SMTP clients connect to your
 sendmail instance.  This should show you what the milter is doing.
 
-By default, milter-0.8.7 rejects on SPF fail.
+By default, milter-0.8.10 rejects on SPF fail.
 
 	Step four.  Tweaking the basic config.
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c169e3951a7b6e1409700fdf41ef1a5041ada4d0..8f09f9d08b4fff822954df5dabc0bad949149499 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-Here is a history of user visible changes to Python milter.
+See pymilter.spec for recent history.
+
+Here is a history of older changes to Python milter.
 0.8.8	move AddrCache, parse_addr, iniplist, parse_header to Milter package
 	fix plock for missing source and can't change owner/group
 	add sample spfmilter.py milter
diff --git a/milter.cfg b/milter.cfg
index 1e479794c66a86472aab79121c472dbffe1d2c13..0c8ead23690a55ed8c77731cf86b2c208d98b741 100644
--- a/milter.cfg
+++ b/milter.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [milter]
+# the directory with log and data files
 datadir = /var/log/milter
 # the socket used to communicate with sendmail.  Must match sendmail.cf
 socket=/var/run/milter/pythonsock