diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0835378a1..20bb21ba2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
+Wednesday, June 26, 2019
+====================================
+- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
+- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
 Thursday, June 20, 2019
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 426b85038..0dc672a81 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [2.5.2],
+        [2.5.3],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 10b826ffb..251cc6399 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
 
 #define HB_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define HB_VERSION_MINOR 5
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 2
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 3
 
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.5.2"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.5.3"
 
 #define HB_VERSION_ATLEAST(major,minor,micro) \
 	((major)*10000+(minor)*100+(micro) <= \