diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index ad8711c6f..8426aeaf9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+version 2.5.3
+----------------------------------------------------------
+* Fix retries on tcp client failing randomly.
+
 version 2.5.2
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 * Add kwarg `reset_socket` to control closing of the socket on read failures (set to `True` by default).
diff --git a/pymodbus/version.py b/pymodbus/version.py
index c317ceb7c..12e7eaaa1 100644
--- a/pymodbus/version.py
+++ b/pymodbus/version.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def __str__(self):
         return '[%s, version %s]' % (self.package, self.short())
 
 
-version = Version('pymodbus', 2, 5, 2)
+version = Version('pymodbus', 2, 5, 3)
 
 version.__name__ = 'pymodbus'  # fix epydoc error