diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 303bf04b4..7e40fe56f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.53.6
+==================================
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 766358 glib doesn't respect XDG_* envvars on W32, ever
+ 783270 Improve Visual Studio support for Meson builds
+ 785955 pthread_setname_np misdetected with meson
+ 786060 Sequences documentation does not make it clear...
+ 786360 gobject: add autoptr support for GClosure
+ 786452 crash on Linux without stderr stream
+ 786460 gio-tool: Unify buffer sizes
+ 786462 Use g_output_stream_write_all instead of while
+ 786463 gio-tool-save: Prevent overwriting error
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Catalan
+ Galician
+ Hungarian
+ Indonesian
+ Lithuanian
+ Nepali
+ Serbian
+
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.53.5
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 09fa3b4d1..4c06500cd 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ m4_define(glib_configure_ac)
 
 m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
 m4_define([glib_minor_version], [53])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [5])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [6])
 m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
 m4_define([glib_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f29af7ebc..c8d1c822d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('glib', 'c', 'cpp',
-  version : '2.53.5',
+  version : '2.53.6',
   meson_version : '>= 0.38.1',
   default_options : [
     'warning_level=1',