Version 2.8.3

* Cherry-pick 76bff1e1981ee7c0e5e9e0b6c3121f9ba8056dec to stable
* Cherry-pick cc4b705cfde688d286d4fe2cfdd687ef7595c023 to stable
* Cherry-pick cd0818f151e97a158b682c3d68352cf4dd7f73e9 to stable
* Cherry-pick 14435c9156da9bfd3f1356b7178021a17f12d3b7 to stable
* Cherry-pick b59abe0cf94bc5e0d06a935fcd127201ad454ddf to stable
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 65c2502..b4b0afc 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 CHANNEL stable
 MAJOR 2
 MINOR 8
-PATCH 2
+PATCH 3
 PRERELEASE 0
 PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
 ABI_VERSION 32