diff --git a/general/graphlib/poppler.xml b/general/graphlib/poppler.xml
index 17e1e6b490..ce73210ffb 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/poppler.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/poppler.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY poppler-download-http
            "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp       " ">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum             "7a5d87b7f62db636cc59f73bbd240811">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum             "fb0a9d82b5433c823421a123eb8e9789">
   <!ENTITY poppler-size               "1.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize          "147 MB (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 46 MB for the test suite and 24 MB for poppler-data)">
-  <!ENTITY poppler-time               "1.8 SBU (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 0.2 SBU for the test suite for each Qt)">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize          "148 MB (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 47 MB for the test suites and 24 MB for poppler-data)">
+  <!ENTITY poppler-time               "1.7 SBU (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 0.4 SBU for the test suites)">
 
   <!ENTITY poppler-data-version       "0.4.7">
 
@@ -130,7 +130,9 @@
       <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
       <xref linkend="lcms"/> or <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
       <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
-      <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>,
+      <xref linkend="openjpeg"/> or
+      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjpeg.mirror/files/">OpenJPEG2</ulink>
+      (preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions in OpenJPEG2),
       <xref linkend="qt4"/> (the <filename>libpoppler-qt4.so</filename> library
       is needed for PDF support in <application>Okular</application>), and
       <xref linkend="qt5"/>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index f1835abdb6..29d3ee39b8 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>January 10th, 2015</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to poppler-0.30.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;6003">#6003</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[fernando] - Update to speexdsp-1.2rc3. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;6002">#6002</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index fd1d213c8e..e748505f1a 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 <!ENTITY openjpeg-version             "1.5.2">
 <!ENTITY openjpeg2-version            "2.1.0">
 <!ENTITY pixman-version               "0.32.6">   <!-- Even minors only -->
-<!ENTITY poppler-version              "0.29.0">   <!-- Even minors only -->
+<!ENTITY poppler-version              "0.30.0">   <!-- Even minors only -->
 <!ENTITY qpdf-version                 "5.1.2">
 
 <!-- Chapter 11 -->