diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: hms
 Title: Pretty Time of Day
 Date: 2020-01-07
-Version: 0.5.2.9002
+Version: 0.5.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Kirill", "Müller", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "krlmlr+r@mailbox.org"),
     person("The R Consortium", role = "fnd"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
-# hms 0.5.2.9002
+# hms 0.5.3
 
 - Use `vec_default_ptype2()`, remove `vec_ptype2.hms.unspecified()` (#80, @romainfrancois).
-
-
-# hms 0.5.2.9001
-
 - `vec_ptype2.hms.default()` forwards to `vec_default_ptype2()` for compatibility with vctrs 0.2.1.
 - Remove `as.data.frame.hms()`, handeld by vctrs.