diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 5428c71..00f248a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+### 0.5.3
+
+(June 1st, 2015)
+
+- enqueue_call() no longer ignores `ttl`. Thanks @mbodock!
+- Better support for unicode kwargs. Thanks @nealtodd and @brownstein!
+- Better API for instantiating Workers. Thanks @RyanMTB!
+- Jobs that are moved from `StartedJobRegistry` to `FailedQueue` now
+  have their statuses assigned properly.
+- Workers now automatically cleans up job registries every hour.
+
 ### 0.5.2
 
 (April 14th, 2015)
diff --git a/rq/version.py b/rq/version.py
index 4b0ec94..e8c1e4b 100644
--- a/rq/version.py
+++ b/rq/version.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
 
-VERSION = '0.5.2'
+VERSION = '0.5.3'