diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e62a10584..3d8bad702 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+## 0.5.3 (2015-11-03)
+
+- Add --version [GH-91]
+- Simplify environment file to key: value, rather than YAML [GH-94]
+- Ensure certificate exists hook [GH-94]
+- Ensure keypair exists hook [GH-99]
+- Custom field constructors & vault encryption [GH-95]
+- DBSnapshotIdentifier to RDS blueprints [GH-105]
+- Empire ECS Agent telemetry support fixes, use new Empire AMI [GH-107]
+- Remove stack tags [GH-110]
+
 ## 0.5.2 (2015-09-10)
 
 - Add Dockerfile/image [GH-87]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5935e0860..6bc6dbcc5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def read(filename):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     setup(
         name='stacker',
-        version='0.5.2',
+        version='0.5.3',
         author='Michael Barrett',
         author_email='loki77@gmail.com',
         license="New BSD license",
diff --git a/stacker/__init__.py b/stacker/__init__.py
index 45869b622..ed7d50e76 100644
--- a/stacker/__init__.py
+++ b/stacker/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.5.2'
+__version__ = '0.5.3'