diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index af7141c..08cf71f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Changelog for package genpy
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+0.5.3 (2014-06-02)
+------------------
 * make TVal more similar to generated messages for introspection (`ros/std_msgs#6 <https://github.com/ros/std_msgs/issues/6>`_)
 
 0.5.2 (2014-05-08)
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
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--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <package>
   <name>genpy</name>
-  <version>0.5.2</version>
+  <version>0.5.3</version>
   <description>Python ROS message and service generators.</description>
   <maintainer email="dthomas@osrfoundation.org">Dirk Thomas</maintainer>
   <license>BSD</license>