diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c644a09..3ce5579 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 /cffi-1.6.0.tar.gz
 /cffi-1.7.0.tar.gz
 /cffi-1.8.2.tar.gz
+/cffi-1.8.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-cffi.spec b/python-cffi.spec
index a6c723f..fea120c 100644
--- a/python-cffi.spec
+++ b/python-cffi.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           python-cffi
-Version:        1.8.2
+Version:        1.8.3
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Foreign Function Interface for Python to call C code
 License:        MIT
@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ cd doc
 make html
 rm build/html/.buildinfo
 
-#%check
+%check
 ## The following test procedure works when I run it manually, but fails
 ## from rpmbuild, complaining that it can't import _cffi_backend, and I'm
 ## not sure how to make it work
-#python setup_base.py build
-#PYTHONPATH=build/lib.linux-* py.test c/ testing/
+python setup_base.py build
+PYTHONPATH=build/lib.linux-* py.test c/ testing/
 
 %install
 %if 0%{?with_python3}
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ popd
 %doc doc/build/html
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Sep 18 2016 John Dulaney <jdulaney@Fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.3-1
+- Update to 1.8.3
+- Reenable check
+
 * Wed Sep 07 2016 John Dulaney <jdulaney@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.2-1
 - Update to 1.8.2
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 656fb04..2955b09 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-538f307b6c5169bba41fbfda2b070762  cffi-1.8.2.tar.gz
+c8e877fe0426a99d0cf5872cf2f95b27  cffi-1.8.3.tar.gz