diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 2b9dfa5b24..9a99717ee2 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 
-## [5.3.0 (API 1.2.0) - 2020-xx-xx
+## [5.3.0 (API 1.2.0)] - 2020-07-03
 
 Several alpha and beta releases preceded this release.
 
diff --git a/config/firefly.php b/config/firefly.php
index da63dac5f7..3daf86d6eb 100644
--- a/config/firefly.php
+++ b/config/firefly.php
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ return [
     ],
 
     //'encryption'                   => null === env('USE_ENCRYPTION') || true === env('USE_ENCRYPTION'),
-    'version'                 => '5.3.0-beta.2',
+    'version'                 => '5.3.0',
     'api_version'             => '1.2.0',
     'db_version'              => 15,
     'maxUploadSize'           => 1073741824, // 1 GB