diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3de2dd0f19475378fd12b4689171cf404f74fe72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Git v1.8.5.3 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.5.2
+--------------------
+
+ * The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
+   a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
+   names.
+
+ * A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
+   new "gc" process from starting.
+
+ * An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak to the
+   credential subsystem.
+
+ * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
+   out, but it didn't.
+
+ * "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
+   disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
+   the same way.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
+   behave very well.
+
+Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index cc0e5e2bfe66a0962283fd570c5e440e72b57813..388b19633ea21cbf1e66bb32d7d08c7fcda4b890 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.8.5.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.2]
+* link:v1.8.5.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.3]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt[1.8.5.3],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt[1.8.5.2],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.5.1.txt[1.8.5.1],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.5.txt[1.8.5].
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 0ec4d003fa44f3b34613daa9c558466222c8a8e4..a8f58ee282998b531ac093280b678baccef7e7ca 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.5.2
+DEF_VER=v1.8.5.3
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 1efc120fe0bdb1a207a1e93ba97c0a082fd32d78..8e86db6ab6eeed617bb208dadba417731c162eae 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.2.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt
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