diff --git a/markdown2-2.5.2.tar.gz b/markdown2-2.5.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e872f5..0000000
--- a/markdown2-2.5.2.tar.gz
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 141583
diff --git a/markdown2-2.5.3.tar.gz b/markdown2-2.5.3.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af9234d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/markdown2-2.5.3.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:4d502953a4633408b0ab3ec503c5d6984d1b14307e32b325ec7d16ea57524895
+size 141676
diff --git a/python-markdown2.changes b/python-markdown2.changes
index 12b4dde..2b428d7 100644
--- a/python-markdown2.changes
+++ b/python-markdown2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb 18 13:40:24 UTC 2025 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 2.5.3
+  * [pull #616] make tables without body gfm compatible
+- Add sed command to remove shebang from lib/markdown2.py
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  8 16:23:14 UTC 2025 - Yunus Acar <yunus.acar@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-markdown2.spec b/python-markdown2.spec
index e4274b4..e9f3d8a 100644
--- a/python-markdown2.spec
+++ b/python-markdown2.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-markdown2
-Version:        2.5.2
+Version:        2.5.3
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A Python implementation of Markdown
 License:        MIT
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ header-ids.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1 -n markdown2-%{version}
+sed -i '/#\!\/usr\/bin\/env\ python/d' lib/markdown2.py
 
 %build
 %pyproject_wheel