diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index d50cd2b177..29cf50dbee 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
-        <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.5.3</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/i18n/pom.xml b/i18n/pom.xml
index 37e789b7aa..aad7905221 100644
--- a/i18n/pom.xml
+++ b/i18n/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
-	<version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>4.5.3</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>i18n</artifactId>
     <name>Internationalization files for Openfire</name>
diff --git a/plugins/openfire-plugin-assembly-descriptor/pom.xml b/plugins/openfire-plugin-assembly-descriptor/pom.xml
index 09e6f75a0f..ddabc61e8e 100644
--- a/plugins/openfire-plugin-assembly-descriptor/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/openfire-plugin-assembly-descriptor/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>plugins</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
-        <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.5.3</version>
     </parent>
     <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>openfire-plugin-assembly-descriptor</artifactId>
diff --git a/plugins/pom.xml b/plugins/pom.xml
index 00b42c4bc6..b12865c399 100644
--- a/plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
-    <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.5.3</version>
     <artifactId>plugins</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>Openfire Plugins</name>
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
         <plugin.name>${project.artifactId}</plugin.name>
 
         <!-- Versions -->
-        <openfire.version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</openfire.version>
+        <openfire.version>4.5.3</openfire.version>
         <!-- Note; the following jetty.version should be identical to the jetty.version in xmppserver/pom.xml -->
         <jetty.version>9.4.18.v20190429</jetty.version>
     </properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 753c6dd70c..bc85c7bbc4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-    <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>4.5.3</version>
     <name>Parent</name>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
diff --git a/starter/pom.xml b/starter/pom.xml
index 115281d0ea..a481fe76ce 100644
--- a/starter/pom.xml
+++ b/starter/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
-        <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.5.3</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>starter</artifactId>
     <name>Starter for Openfire</name>
diff --git a/xmppserver/changelog.html b/xmppserver/changelog.html
index 185e10395e..616b25deba 100644
--- a/xmppserver/changelog.html
+++ b/xmppserver/changelog.html
@@ -163,6 +163,31 @@ <h1>Openfire Changelog</h1>
     <div id="pageBody">
 
 
+<h2>4.5.3 -- <span style="font-weight: normal;">August 17, 2020</span></h2>
+<h2>        Bug
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/OF-2038'>OF-2038</a>] -         Shared groups should not be looked up in LDAP
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>        Task
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/OF-2031'>OF-2031</a>] -         CVE-2020-10683 Update dom4j to 2.1.3 or later
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>        Improvement
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/OF-2027'>OF-2027</a>] -         Enable PEP service for JIDs that are not backed by a User
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/OF-2032'>OF-2032</a>] -         Make connection type fallback for WEBADMIN c2s
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+
 <h2>4.5.2 -- <span style="font-weight: normal;">May 18, 2020</span></h2>
 	    <h2>        Bug
 </h2>
diff --git a/xmppserver/pom.xml b/xmppserver/pom.xml
index a8deed581c..b8177f2d26 100644
--- a/xmppserver/pom.xml
+++ b/xmppserver/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-        <version>4.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.5.3</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>xmppserver</artifactId>
     <name>Core XMPP Server</name>
diff --git a/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/spi/XMPPServerInfoImpl.java b/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/spi/XMPPServerInfoImpl.java
index a5cd47dac9..09cd7d73e3 100644
--- a/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/spi/XMPPServerInfoImpl.java
+++ b/xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/spi/XMPPServerInfoImpl.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public class XMPPServerInfoImpl implements XMPPServerInfo {
 
     private final Date startDate;
 
-    public static final Version VERSION = new Version(4, 5, 3, Version.ReleaseStatus.Alpha, -1 );
+    public static final Version VERSION = new Version(4, 5, 3, Version.ReleaseStatus.Release, -1 );
 
     /**
      * Simple constructor