diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 462f4d2d60..f700a22461 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2022-12-22 - V5.3.0
+ * Minor updates for documentation and cmake builds.
+
 2022-12-13 - V5.3.0-rc1
  * Fix the training tools for the legacy OCR engine (fix issue #3925).
  * PDF renderer: Ignore non-text blocks (fix issue #3957).
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fa17e5b8b4..03f488b076 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.3.0-rc1
+5.3.0
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f6340e4a23..b422042fd0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects nostdinc])
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
 PACKAGE_YEAR=2022
-PACKAGE_DATE="12/13"
+PACKAGE_DATE="12/22"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`