diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index fdd8cf074..4c077c396 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest changes
 
+## 0.53.0
+
 * Update test coverage badge. PR [#1175](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1175).
 * Add `orjson` to `pip install fastapi[all]`. PR [#1161](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1161) by [@michael0liver](https://github.com/michael0liver).
 * Fix included example for `GZipMiddleware`. PR [#1138](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1138) by [@arimbr](https://github.com/arimbr).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index af924de86..0a6c7aa2d 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.52.0"
+__version__ = "0.53.0"
 
 from starlette import status