diff --git a/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst b/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
index 1c6ac84..451b396 100644
--- a/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Changelog for package pluginlib
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+5.3.1 (2023-11-06)
+------------------
 * Fix wShadow compile warning (`#250 <https://github.com/ros/pluginlib/issues/250>`_)
 * Contributors: Steve Macenski
 
diff --git a/pluginlib/package.xml b/pluginlib/package.xml
index 87e6a0a..e3805c5 100644
--- a/pluginlib/package.xml
+++ b/pluginlib/package.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
 <package format="2">
   <name>pluginlib</name>
-  <version>5.3.0</version>
+  <version>5.3.1</version>
   <description>
     The pluginlib package provides tools for writing and dynamically loading plugins using the ROS build infrastructure.
     To work, these tools require plugin providers to register their plugins in the package.xml of their package.