diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f561932..a4421b3 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Further documentation is located at http://idstools.readthedocs.org.
 Changelog
 ---------
 
-Unreleased
-~~~~~~~~~~
+0.5.4
+~~~~~
 
 - idstools: handle rules with no msg in rule parser
 - idstools-rulecat: support a drop.conf for setting rules to drop
diff --git a/idstools/__init__.py b/idstools/__init__.py
index f4c4f3f..35e8560 100644
--- a/idstools/__init__.py
+++ b/idstools/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "0.5.3"
+version = "0.5.4"