diff --git a/Git-PurePerl-0.52.tar.gz b/Git-PurePerl-0.52.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index edd0f37..0000000
--- a/Git-PurePerl-0.52.tar.gz
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:f2cefd2b37d5bc21c048e1c692026d9a58849a610280059cc47ec2fc35ea9190
-size 65501
diff --git a/Git-PurePerl-0.53.tar.gz b/Git-PurePerl-0.53.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7c872b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Git-PurePerl-0.53.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:987c74366cc4c37ee084050f985fa254359c89c12507f5b8bfc6607de538d5a8
+size 65556
diff --git a/perl-Git-PurePerl.changes b/perl-Git-PurePerl.changes
index e65ea3c..f4fe9fc 100644
--- a/perl-Git-PurePerl.changes
+++ b/perl-Git-PurePerl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 20 05:37:14 UTC 2016 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- updated to 0.53
+   see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Git-PurePerl/CHANGES
+
+  0.53 Mon 19 Sep 2016 16:12:45 BST
+       - Add support for creating merge commits to Git::PurePerl::Object::Commit
+         (Philippe Bruhat (BooK))
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun 12 13:07:43 UTC 2016 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/perl-Git-PurePerl.spec b/perl-Git-PurePerl.spec
index f931b65..8cd1342 100644
--- a/perl-Git-PurePerl.spec
+++ b/perl-Git-PurePerl.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           perl-Git-PurePerl
-Version:        0.52
+Version:        0.53
 Release:        0
 %define cpan_name Git-PurePerl
 Summary:        Pure Perl interface to Git repositories