diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b091732e0f46ba0f6d4a66e4ce0cb05edf14ad83..7c60e369602f7049e915aa0036b3ae9a5af3982a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,26 @@
 ### Removed
 - 
 
+## [0.5.3] 2019-07-23
+### Added
+- Jitter time marginalization. For the time-marginalized likelihood, a jitter
+  is used to ensure proper sampling without artifacts (!534)
+- Zero likelihood mode for testing and zero-likelihood test to the nightly C.I ((!542)
+- 15D analytic Gaussian test example (!547) 
+
+### Changes
+- Dynesty version minimum set to 0.9.7. Changes to this sampler vastly improve
+  performance (!537)
+- Improvements to waveform plotting (!534) 
+- Fixed bugs in the prior loading and added tests (!531 !539 !553 !515)
+- Fixed issue in 1D CDF prior plots (!538)
+- ROQ weights stored as npz rather than json (memory-performance improvement) (!536)
+- Distance marginalisation now uses cubic rather than linear interpolation. Improves
+  distance/inclination posteriors for high SNR systems. (!552)
+- Inputs to hyperpe modified to allow for more flexible sampling prior specification
+  and improve efficiency. (!545)
+- Fix definition of some spin phase parameters (!556).
+
 ## [0.5.2] 2019-06-18
 ### Added
 - Method to read data in using gwpy get (and associated example)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 960cd48b123dd8d0431430affa24b8a58315843a..27e4f0fd01a253d3893d278f0a41d5206f06ed3c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def readfile(filename):
     return filecontents
 
 
-VERSION = '0.5.2'
+VERSION = '0.5.3'
 version_file = write_version_file(VERSION)
 long_description = get_long_description()