diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c4f353e..7ead0d3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ sssd-1.2.91.tar.gz
 /sssd-1.6.0.tar.gz
 /sssd-1.6.1.tar.gz
 /sssd-1.6.2.tar.gz
+/sssd-1.6.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 04c3a55..2b61958 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-38cf9c8dc8f173e068fcb31b7ee9baf1  sssd-1.6.2.tar.gz
+835c7fe267d7380fd42876ccc5a98b19  sssd-1.6.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/sssd.spec b/sssd.spec
index 9d0f839..80937cb 100644
--- a/sssd.spec
+++ b/sssd.spec
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 %global ldb_version 1.1.0
 
 Name: sssd
-Version: 1.6.2
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 1.6.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Group: Applications/System
 Summary: System Security Services Daemon
 License: GPLv3+
@@ -356,6 +356,12 @@ fi
 %postun -n libipa_hbac -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 04 2011 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> - 1.6.3-1
+- New upstream release 1.6.3
+- https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.6.3
+- Fixes a major cache performance issue introduced in 1.6.2
+- Fixes a potential infinite-loop with certain LDAP layouts
+
 * Wed Oct 26 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-5
 - Rebuilt for glibc bug#747377