diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4cda8f1..8af85be 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.2
+1.5.3
diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index 90dbcd6..d13a65b 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package:
     name: thredds_crawler
-    version: "1.5.2"
+    version: "1.5.3"
 
 source:
     path: ../
diff --git a/thredds_crawler/__init__.py b/thredds_crawler/__init__.py
index c3b3841..0bb84ff 100644
--- a/thredds_crawler/__init__.py
+++ b/thredds_crawler/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.5.2'
+__version__ = '1.5.3'