diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 152501d..a925869 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -215,3 +215,4 @@
 /cockpit-250.tar.xz
 /cockpit-251.tar.xz
 /cockpit-252.tar.xz
+/cockpit-253.tar.xz
diff --git a/cockpit.spec b/cockpit.spec
index caa77ce..27d5ccc 100644
--- a/cockpit.spec
+++ b/cockpit.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This spec file has been automatically updated
-Version:        252
+Version:        253
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Red Hat, Inc.
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ install -D -p -m 644 AUTHORS COPYING README.md %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/cockpit/
 %endif
 
 # only ship deprecated PatternFly API for stable releases
-%if 0%{?fedora} <= 33 || 0%{?rhel} <= 8
+%if 0%{?rhel} <= 8
     ln -s cockpit.css.gz %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/cockpit/base1/patternfly.css.gz
 %endif
 
@@ -428,14 +428,11 @@ Provides: cockpit-selinux = %{version}-%{release}
 Provides: cockpit-sosreport = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: sos
 %endif
-%if 0%{?fedora} >= 29
-# 0.7.0 (actually) supports task cancellation.
-# 0.7.1 fixes tasks never announcing completion.
-Recommends: (reportd >= 0.7.1 if abrt)
+%if 0%{?fedora}
+Recommends: (reportd if abrt)
 %endif
 # NPM modules which are also available as packages
 Provides: bundled(js-jquery) = 3.5.1
-Provides: bundled(xstatic-bootstrap-datepicker-common) = 1.9.0
 Provides: bundled(xstatic-patternfly-common) = 3.59.5
 
 %description system
@@ -716,6 +713,9 @@ via PackageKit.
 
 # The changelog is automatically generated and merged
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 15 2021 Katerina Koukiou <kkoukiou@redhat.com> - 253-1
+- SELinux: Dismiss multiple alerts
+
 * Wed Sep 01 2021 Simon Kobyda <skobyda@redhat.com> - 252-1
 - Webserver: Drop remotectl utility
 - Shell: Show package version in ‘About web console’ modal
diff --git a/plans/upstream.fmf b/plans/upstream.fmf
index 3c2c08c..e2374a2 100644
--- a/plans/upstream.fmf
+++ b/plans/upstream.fmf
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ discover:
   how: fmf
   repository: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
   # FIXME: get rid of the hardcoding: https://github.com/psss/tmt/issues/585
-  ref: "252"
+  ref: "253"
 execute:
   how: tmt
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a0b8c8b..892488c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (cockpit-252.tar.xz) = 38e5cc4b991264599e3178d99202a937fd56cfe7d8e6f02ef47c9eca2e82e88eb9dd4db08195e83cb82e862134e16b857d21322361b5f506dd31221bcb5a0b22
+SHA512 (cockpit-253.tar.xz) = d2d6677d2a780f428c5db7f636344acbb685c4ee94fe53bc84604551b8d367134cf7363f5866edc6efbee7d293303fb89754f2e5175c3f439b24ba0f0567d9a3