diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 992f696e67..3f5b324b88 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 3rd, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Adjust inkscape to build with poppler-0.83.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12858">#12858</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Update to firefox-68.3.0esr (security fix). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12856">#12856</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/xsoft/other/inkscape.xml b/xsoft/other/inkscape.xml
index 069f0883a6..263bd06010 100644
--- a/xsoft/other/inkscape.xml
+++ b/xsoft/other/inkscape.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
         <para>Required patch: <ulink url="&patch-root;/inkscape-&inkscape-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Required patch: <ulink url="&patch-root;/inkscape-&inkscape-version;-poppler_0_82_0_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
-      </listitem>  
+        <para>Required patch: <ulink url="&patch-root;/inkscape-&inkscape-version;-poppler_0_83_0_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
+      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Inkscape Dependencies</bridgehead>
@@ -158,7 +158,13 @@
       Next, fix Inkscape to be able to build with poppler-0.82.0 and higher:
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../inkscape-&inkscape-version;-poppler_0_82_0_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e 's|Unicode \*u|Unicode const *u|g' -i src/extension/internal/pdfinput/*</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      Now fix Inkscape to build with poppler-0.83.0:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../inkscape-&inkscape-version;-poppler_0_83_0_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
       Ensure that the libraries from <xref linkend="imagemagick6"/> can be used: