diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f97758d..d247975 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -51,3 +51,4 @@ results_CGAL
 /CGAL-5.2.tar.xz
 /CGAL-5.2.1.tar.xz
 /CGAL-5.2.2.tar.xz
+/CGAL-5.3-beta1.tar.xz
diff --git a/CGAL.spec b/CGAL.spec
index eaf6aa9..c1891a9 100644
--- a/CGAL.spec
+++ b/CGAL.spec
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# CGAL-5.0 is now a header-only library, with dependencies. It no
+# CGAL-5.x is now a header-only library, with dependencies. It no
 # longer has any binary to build, but cannot be noarch because of
 # arch-specific dependencies
 %global debug_package %{nil}
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 %global qt_version 5.9
 %global cmake_version 3.14
 
-%global fullversion %{version}
-#global fullversion 5.2-beta1
+#global fullversion %{version}
+%global fullversion 5.3-beta1
 
 
 Name:           CGAL
-Version:        5.2.2
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Version:        5.3
+Release:        0.1.beta1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
 
 License:        LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+ and Boost
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ ldd ./constrained_plus
 %exclude %{_datadir}/CGAL/*/*/skip_vcproj_auto_generation
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun  4 2021 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau@cgal.org> - 5.3-0.1.beta1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Wed Jun  2 2021 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau@cgal.org> - 5.2.2-1
 - New upstream release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 91db709..57d8209 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (CGAL-5.2.2.tar.xz) = e51a0c82dc39f3c1c5245570f6f5d443ee9056e8aa58d0aeccbe6419323be52528477c9b339a8a071336da432eeca2bbf5322c06a7d0e27ef31c7aeded68c7ec
+SHA512 (CGAL-5.3-beta1.tar.xz) = 10e4c92b232fb72035a0054ff52978dca1dc626ca8b47f5643129c3a2d5e10f93d4a366e3e6d381c966524a9e3616225ebb973e0d35fbf550b8c7b7c361f74bc