diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 118843b..808b65c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /torque-2.5.2.tar.gz
+/torque-2.5.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 55cdca7..4175e51 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7d4a541b5ad16a8c0dcebafe0930dc1f  torque-2.5.2.tar.gz
+b7868cf95582e20f2725651f97266947  torque-2.5.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/torque.spec b/torque.spec
index 31a0396..c7138ea 100644
--- a/torque.spec
+++ b/torque.spec
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@
 %global server_nameflags --with-default-server=%{server_name}
 
 Name:        torque
-Version:     2.5.2
-Release:     4%{?dist}
+Version:     2.5.3
+Release:     1%{?dist}
 Summary:     Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager
 Source0:     http://www.clusterresources.com/downloads/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source2:     xpbs.desktop
@@ -654,6 +654,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Nov 18 2010 Steve Traylen <steve.traylen@cern.ch> - 2.5.3-1
+- Upstream to 2.5.3.
+
 * Thu Oct 14 2010 Steve Traylen <steve.traylen@cern.ch> - 2.5.2-4
 - rhbz#643194, stop a stoped service, start a start service 
   return codes now fixed.