diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b2dfd269ea18..80d8a032e2ace 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 [![Tests Status](https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/workflows/CI/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/actions/workflows/ci.yml?query=branch%3Amaster) [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/741/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/741) [![Build Status](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/416/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/416) [![Total alerts](https://img.shields.io/lgtm/alerts/g/radareorg/radare2.svg?logo=lgtm&logoWidth=18)](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/radareorg/radare2/alerts/)
 
-Git version is 5.3.0-git and the [![latest packaged version(s)](https://repology.org/badge/latest-versions/radare2.svg)](https://repology.org/project/radare2/versions) See the [Release](https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases) downloads page.
+Git version is 5.3.0 and the [![latest packaged version(s)](https://repology.org/badge/latest-versions/radare2.svg)](https://repology.org/project/radare2/versions) See the [Release](https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases) downloads page.
 
 r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare. It provies a set of libraries, tools and
 plugins to ease reverse engineering tasks.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ceb8f5d86b155..f03de9bb42bf0 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -131,12 +131,12 @@ done
 : ${INSTALL_PROGRAM_STRIP:=${INSTALL} -m 755 -s}
 : ${INSTALL_MAN:=${INSTALL} -m 444}
 : ${INSTALL_LIB:=${INSTALL} -m 755 -c}
- PKGNAME='radare2' ; VERSION='5.3.0-git' ; VERSION_MAJOR=5; VERSION_MINOR=3; VERSION_PATCH=0; VERSION_NUMBER=50300; CONTACT_MAIL="pancake@nopcode.org" ; CONTACT_NAME="pancake" ; CONTACT="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>" ;
+ PKGNAME='radare2' ; VERSION='5.3.0' ; VERSION_MAJOR=5; VERSION_MINOR=3; VERSION_PATCH=0; VERSION_NUMBER=50300; CONTACT_MAIL="pancake@nopcode.org" ; CONTACT_NAME="pancake" ; CONTACT="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>" ;
 }
 
 show_usage() {
 cat <<EOF2
-'configure' configures radare2-5.3.0-git to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+'configure' configures radare2-5.3.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -238,10 +238,10 @@ ocho() {
 
 show_version() {
 if [ "$QUIET" = 1 ]; then
-	echo "5.3.0-git"
+	echo "5.3.0"
 	exit 0
 fi
-echo "radare2-5.3.0-git configuration script done with acr v1.9.8.
+echo "radare2-5.3.0 configuration script done with acr v1.9.8.
 The 'Free Software Foundation' message is only for autodetection.
 Originally written by pancake <nopcode.org>."
 exit 0
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ case $flag in
 	show_version ; ;;
 -r|--r|--report)
 echo "PKGNAME:   radare2"
-echo "VERSION:   5.3.0-git"
+echo "VERSION:   5.3.0"
 echo "LANGS:     c"
 echo "REQUIRED:  libdl"
 echo "OPTIONAL:  libmagic libz libzip libxxhash libssl liblibuv>=1.0.0"
diff --git a/configure.acr b/configure.acr
index b361f5d3099f5..a47e7b50f31b9 100644
--- a/configure.acr
+++ b/configure.acr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PKGNAME radare2
-VERSION 5.3.0-git
+VERSION 5.3.0
 CONTACT pancake ; pancake@nopcode.org
 
 LANG_C!