diff --git a/_service b/_service
index c5db880..9fec967 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <param name="scm">git</param>
     <param name="exclude">.git</param>
     <param name="version">git-master</param>
-    <param name="versionformat">0.5.1.%ct.%h</param>
+    <param name="versionformat">0.5.3.%ct.%h</param>
     <param name="revision">master</param>
     <param name="changesgenerate">enable</param>
   </service>
diff --git a/_servicedata b/_servicedata
index e3bf31e..ad4465b 100644
--- a/_servicedata
+++ b/_servicedata
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <servicedata>
   <service name="tar_scm">
     <param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-tar_scm.git</param>
-    <param name="changesrevision">de67b88320ca42dbd145c7f14ca062739917dc61</param>
+    <param name="changesrevision">b0e72e1b153c6eef6ea16aa9d120cc1d5bcdd962</param>
   </service>
 </servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.1.1426664483.de67b88.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.1.1426664483.de67b88.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f22438..0000000
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.1.1426664483.de67b88.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:98256e31c772a823900323dd6750f31a332244a36f66204f1dc3f805199e1f2d
-size 29846
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.3.1433158390.b0e72e1.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.3.1433158390.b0e72e1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66c916d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.3.1433158390.b0e72e1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:aa9bda07d225353c3b65fcc0acb493f8b0e4beb8ce99af6139d872dc7948bd12
+size 29831
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index b3d8c44..33083e3 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jun 01 11:34:28 UTC 2015 - aspiers@suse.com
+
+- Update to version 0.5.3.1433158390.b0e72e1:
+  + use the same Python interpreter for testing tar_scm
+  + Split up the steps of git cloning and submodule initialization
+  + fix Makefile test runner for Debian
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 27 09:35:08 UTC 2015 - aspiers@suse.com
+
+- Update to version 0.5.2.1432717816.cff60cf:
+  + be explicit about python2, python may be python3
+  + Fix newline at the end of @PARENT_TAG@
+  + Fix Mercurial version format strings in unittest
+  + Refactoring of package metadata regex matching
+  + Refactor resetting of uid/gid so that it is reusable
+  + Fix handling of --include option
+  + Fix handling of --exclude option
+  + Refactor subdir handling of tarchecker's to prevent code duplication
+  + ignore PEP8's E731 check for lambdas
+  + PEP8 E402 fix: set PYTHONPATH outside code
+  + add @TAG_OFFSET@ support in versionformat for git
+  + fix inconsistencies in tar_scm.service
+  + - fix .service file syntax (OBS 2.6.1 is checking now)
+  + mention need to set PYTHONPATH when running tests
+  + keep STDERR separate
+  + don't allow --subdir to wander outside repo (bsc#927120, #71)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 18 07:44:18 UTC 2015 - adrian@suse.de
 
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
index c8f76b0..ee5ac8a 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define service tar_scm
 
 Name:           obs-service-%{service}
-Version:        0.5.1.1426664483.de67b88
+Version:        0.5.3.1433158390.b0e72e1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An OBS source service: checkout or update a tar ball from svn/git/hg
 License:        GPL-2.0+