diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3f71809..9198d97 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 /xnat-0.4.0.tar.gz
 /xnat-0.4.2.tar.gz
 /xnatpy-0.5.1.tar.bz2
+/xnatpy-0.5.3.tar.bz2
diff --git a/python-xnat.spec b/python-xnat.spec
index 8cb253e..d293097 100644
--- a/python-xnat.spec
+++ b/python-xnat.spec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ get, head, put, post, delete methods for more directly calling the REST
 API.}
 
 Name:           python-xnat
-Version:        0.5.1
+Version:        0.5.3
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        XNAT client that exposes XNAT objects/functions as python objects/functions
 # Only expand forge macros in fedora >= 40 since %%forgesource is broken
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4d59d23..11ed34e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (xnatpy-0.5.1.tar.bz2) = 5877f8de3d41f62ba45af3db0edbf4fd4f0a5868e38caec84ec2c075035811cb85b51c28dc2c5112bd99ab0d9a8bb920a69dec870baeca4f9de0529d7093bccc
+SHA512 (xnatpy-0.5.3.tar.bz2) = d40afa563c768aa82e5cc3c15322a99980d1589e0fd6003a1e27a6293a5aaecfaa72786952f40ca9ed8b1774de8da5a6c164a121d8682fb67fbb61043a952f89