diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9293a90..bd7d573 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23)
 
 set(namespace "str_view")
 project("str_view"
-    VERSION 0.5.2
+    VERSION 0.5.3
     LANGUAGES C
     DESCRIPTION "Robust read-only string handling, tokenization, and matching in C."
 )