diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index f2175f5e6..d8b4689c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 This document provides a high-level view of the changes to the {project-name} by release.
 For a detailed view of what has changed, refer to the {uri-repo}/commits/master[commit history] on GitHub.
 
-== Unreleased
+== 1.5.3 (2020-02-28) - @mojavelinux
 
 Bug Fixes::
 
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 5a5544f59..1362103fb 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 = Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
 Dan Allen <https://github.com/mojavelinux[@mojavelinux]>; Sarah White <https://github.com/graphitefriction[@graphitefriction]>
+v1.5.3, 2020-02-28
 // Settings:
 :experimental:
 :idprefix:
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ endif::[]
 :project-name: Asciidoctor PDF
 :project-handle: asciidoctor-pdf
 // Variables:
-:release-version: 1.5.2
+:release-version: 1.5.3
 // URIs:
 :url-asciidoctor: http://asciidoctor.org
 :url-gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/asciidoctor-pdf
diff --git a/lib/asciidoctor/pdf/version.rb b/lib/asciidoctor/pdf/version.rb
index 55352d8de..1a6002f2e 100644
--- a/lib/asciidoctor/pdf/version.rb
+++ b/lib/asciidoctor/pdf/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 module Asciidoctor
   module PDF
-    VERSION = '1.5.3.dev'
+    VERSION = '1.5.3'
   end
   Pdf = PDF unless const_defined? :Pdf, false
 end