diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 60e364f..015f4ff 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+1.5.3 (2024-09-13)
+------------------
+
+ - tidy up any zombie processes
+ - chrootless hurd-i386
+ - add --skip=cleanup/reproducible/machine-id
+ - m-a-b-q: replace test_installed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+
 1.5.2 (2024-06-26)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 8ddcb27..01841b0 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.5.2';
+our $VERSION = '1.5.3';
 
 use English;
 use Getopt::Long;