diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index e7063025d..77a4f0bd1 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
 ## Unreleased
+
+## 5.3.0 (03/08/2017)
 ### Public API Change
 * Remove disableDataSync option.
 * Remove timeout_hint_us option from WriteOptions. The option has been deprecated and has no effect since 3.13.0.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index c11874a0e..80cb1742f 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 5
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 2
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 3
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with