diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac8066f..2ba2ede 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/JSON-2.51.tar.gz
+/JSON-[0-9.]*.tar.gz
diff --git a/perl-JSON.spec b/perl-JSON.spec
index 757b1ab..bc56a9c 100644
--- a/perl-JSON.spec
+++ b/perl-JSON.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           perl-JSON
 Summary:        Parse and convert to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
-Version:        2.51
+Version:        2.53
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic
 Group:          Development/Libraries
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ make test
 %{_mandir}/man3/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun May 22 2011 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 2.53-1
+- update to 2.53
+  - fixed to_json (CPAN RT#68359)
+  - backport JSON::PP 2.27200 (fixed incr_parse decoding string more correctly
+    - CPAN RT#68032)
+  - made Makefile.PL skip an installing XS question when set $ENV{PERL_ONLY} or
+    $ENV{NO_XS} (CPAN RT#66820)
+
 * Tue Mar  8 2011 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 2.51-1
 - update to 2.51 (#683052)
   - import JSON::PP 2.27105 as BackportPP
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0d375c0..11be2b1 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-d0ead26851f1e84d122f34533c3809cc  JSON-2.51.tar.gz
+7db1be00d44414c4962eeac222395a76  JSON-2.53.tar.gz