diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f4433abb..259eb257 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-next
-----
+0.5.3
+-----
   * Support flattened KDUMP format.
 
 0.5.2
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8ad7aa96..af197c85 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dnl  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 dnl Package release versioning
 m4_define([pkg_major_version], [0])
 m4_define([pkg_minor_version], [5])
-m4_define([pkg_micro_version], [2])
+m4_define([pkg_micro_version], [3])
 m4_define([pkg_version],
           [pkg_major_version.pkg_minor_version.pkg_micro_version])
 
diff --git a/src/kdumpfile/Makefile.am b/src/kdumpfile/Makefile.am
index 58ecae7c..8b57d1cb 100644
--- a/src/kdumpfile/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/kdumpfile/Makefile.am
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ libkdumpfile_la_LIBADD = \
 	$(SNAPPY_LIBS)	\
 	$(ZSTD_LIBS)
 
-libkdumpfile_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 10:1:0
+libkdumpfile_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 10:2:0
 
 if HAVE_LD_VERSION_SCRIPT
 libkdumpfile_la_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--version-script=$(srcdir)/libkdumpfile.map