diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d23dc150648b..c8bbed3eea4ca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,32 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 
+## [1.5.3] - 2021-11-23
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+### Fixed
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+- When a tensor is logged with `self.log`, run its computation with the same `dtype` ([#10076](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10076))
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+- Fixed `ShardedTensor` state dict hook registration to check if torch distributed is available ([#10621](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10621))
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+- Fixed LigtningLite `_wrap_init` popping unexisting keys from DataLoader signature parameters  ([#10613](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10613))
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+- Fixed signals being registered within threads ([#10610](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10610))
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+- Fixed an issue that caused Lightning to extract the batch size even though it was set by the user in `LightningModule.log` ([#10408](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10408))
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 ## [1.5.2] - 2021-11-16
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py b/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
index bc89cc2b18e93..4d327684978b6 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 )
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.apply_func import apply_to_collection, convert_to_tensors
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.cloud_io import get_filesystem
-from pytorch_lightning.utilities.distributed import distributed_available, sync_ddp
+from pytorch_lightning.utilities.distributed import distributed_available, rank_zero_debug, sync_ddp
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.exceptions import MisconfigurationException
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.memory import get_model_size_mb
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.model_summary import ModelSummary, summarize
@@ -2059,7 +2059,8 @@ def _register_sharded_tensor_state_dict_hooks_if_available(self) -> None:
 
         These hooks ensure that ShardedTensors are included when saving, and are loaded the LightningModule correctly.
         """
-        if not _TORCH_GREATER_EQUAL_1_10 or _IS_WINDOWS:
+        if not _TORCH_GREATER_EQUAL_1_10 or _IS_WINDOWS or not torch.distributed.is_available():
+            rank_zero_debug("Could not register sharded tensor state dict hooks")
             return
 
         from torch.distributed._sharded_tensor import pre_load_state_dict_hook, state_dict_hook