diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9195d0013b20a..b3af8ab1d2f84e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,45 @@
-2011.07.22, Version 0.5.2 (unstable)
+2011.08.01, Version 0.5.3 (unstable)
+
+* Fix crypto encryption/decryption with Base64. (SAWADA Tadashi)
+
+* #243 Add an optional length argument to Buffer.write() (koichik)
+
+* #657 convert nonbuffer data to string in fs.writeFile/Sync
+  (Daniel Pihlström)
+
+* Add process.features, remove process.useUV (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* #324 Fix crypto hmac to accept binary keys + add test cases from rfc 2202
+  and 4231 (Stefan Bühler)
+
+* Add Socket::bytesRead, Socket::bytesWritten (Alexander Uvarov)
+
+* #572 Don't print result of --eval in CLI (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* #1223 Fix http.ClientRequest crashes if end() was called twice (koichik)
+
+* #1383 Emit 'close' after all connections have closed (Felix Geisendörfer)
+
+* Add sprintf-like util.format() function (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* Add support for TLS SNI (Fedor Indutny)
+
+* New http agent implementation. Off by default the command line flag
+  --use-http2 will enable it. "make test-http2" will run the tests
+	for the new implementation. (Mikeal Rogers)
+
+* Revert AMD compatibility. (isaacs)
+
+* Windows: improvements, child_process support.
+
+* Remove pkg-config file.
+
+* Fix startup time regressions.
+
+* doc improvements
+
+
+2011.07.22, Version 0.5.2 (unstable), 08ffce1a00dde1199174b390a64a90b60768ddf5
 
 * libuv improvements; named pipe support
 
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index c0d31c4393bcbb..cb06bf5275890a 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         <li><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a></li>
         <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api">v0.4.10 docs</a></li>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.2/api">v0.5.2 docs</a></li>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.3/api">v0.5.3 docs</a></li>
         <br/>
         <li><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki">Wiki</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://blog.nodejs.org/">Blog</a></li>
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ <h2 id="download">Download</h2>
         <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
       </ul>
 
-      <p>2011.07.22 v0.5.2 (unstable)
+      <p>2011.08.01 v0.5.3 (unstable)
       <ul class="release">
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.2/node-v0.5.2.tar.gz"><code>node-v0.5.2.tar.gz</code> Source code</a>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.2/node.exe"><code>node.exe</code> Windows executable</a>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.2/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/node-v0.5.3.tar.gz"><code>node-v0.5.3.tar.gz</code> Source code</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.3/node.exe"><code>node.exe</code> Windows executable</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.3/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
       </ul>
 
 
diff --git a/doc/template.html b/doc/template.html
index 930608173e9fb0..9085d82b6bfb32 100644
--- a/doc/template.html
+++ b/doc/template.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <html>
 <head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8" />
-  <title>{{section}}Node.js v0.5.2 Manual &amp; Documentation</title>
+  <title>{{section}}Node.js v0.5.3 Manual &amp; Documentation</title>
   <link type="image/x-icon" rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
   <link type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/style.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 <body>
   <div id="container">
     <header>
-      <h1>Node.js v0.5.2 Manual &amp; Documentation</h1>
+      <h1>Node.js v0.5.3 Manual &amp; Documentation</h1>
       <div id="gtoc">
         <p><a href="index.html">Index</a> | <a href="all.html">View on single page</a></p>
       </div>
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index 75c212b4562f13..49393ceff367de 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 5
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 3
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)
