diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
index d111661..6eb85aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft)
+GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes
 ========================
 
 Updates since v1.5.2
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
 * Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with
   repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
 
+* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0.
+
 * New commands and options.
 
   - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from
@@ -36,8 +38,38 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid
     exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size".
 
+  - "git fsck" gained --verbose option.  This is really really
+    verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is
+    corrupt in your repository.
+
+  - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option.  This
+    may be useful for MH users.
+
+  - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags.
+
+  - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout.
+
+  - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes
+    whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option.
+
 * Updated behavior of existing commands.
 
+  - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking
+    notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc.
+
+  - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before.  The
+    default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI
+    allows to choose normal diff with any parent.
+
+  - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at
+    $path/$project/.git are more useful.  We use $project part
+    in the filename, which we used to discard.
+
+  - "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any
+    interesting information we can record in an annotated tag,
+    and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not
+    properly formed anyway.
+
   - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from
     the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking
     branches if you have any.
@@ -48,17 +80,25 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
     the end of the file.
 
-  - fetch over git native protocols with -v shows connection
+  - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection
     status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
     diagnosing problems.
 
-  - core.legacyheaders is no more, although we still can read
-    objects created in a new loose object format.
+  - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when
+    set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format
+    that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs.  It
+    turns out that this was not so useful.  Although we will
+    continue to read objects written in that format, we do not
+    honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in
+    the legacy/traditional format.
+
+  - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be
+    spelled as "-C -C" for brevity.
 
   - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir
     formatted mailboxes.
 
-  - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"
+  - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"
     request.
 
   - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in
@@ -68,6 +108,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
   - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
     repository.
 
+  - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff.
+
 
 * Builds
 
@@ -88,22 +130,40 @@ Updates since v1.5.2
     the object requested the last time, which exploits the
     locality of references.
 
+  - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost
+    by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them.
+
+
 Fixes since v1.5.2
 ------------------
 
 All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in
 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 
-* Bugfixes
+* Bugfixes ('+' needs cherry-picking to maint)
+
+  + "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge
+    on binary files.
+
+  + "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration
+    correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
+
+  + "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older
+    Encode.pm Perl module.
+
+  + The email address of the user specified with user.email
+    configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable.
+
+  + The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
+    nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
 
   - ....  This has not
     been backported to 1.5.2.x series, as it is rather an
     intrusive change.
 
-
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.2-45-ged82edc
-O=v1.5.2-172-g1a8b769
+O=v1.5.2.1-133-gd44c782
+O=v1.5.2.1-271-g90ac368
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 06c360b..3c0032c 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.5.2.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.5.3.GIT
 
 LF='
 '