diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 85b4955d64..4ba3a9fbaf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2024-01-18 - V5.3.4
+* Fixes for scrollview
+* Fixes for autoconf, clang and sw builds
+* Improve OCR for an image URL
+  * Fail on curl download errors
+  * New parameter curl_cookiefile
+  * Set User-Agent: header field in HTTP request for curl downloads
+* Output directory list from "combine_tessdata -d" to stdout
+* Other small improvements for code and documentation.
+
 2023-10-05 - V5.3.3
 * Small code fixes and improvements to fix Coverity Scan issues.
 * Disable -mfpu=neon for aarch64.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 74664af740..e0a61e6a84 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.3.3
+5.3.4
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0b38537229..4e257a011c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects nostdinc])
 
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
-PACKAGE_YEAR=2023
-PACKAGE_DATE="10/05"
+PACKAGE_YEAR=2024
+PACKAGE_DATE="01/18"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`