Prepare for release of 3.5.3

Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Release: yes

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index c6fa44d0dd16a5d9cea54f479dcc8ce85d54ed5a..5f5ba3ef1751bd1a66f931114cbada558f4a505b 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ OpenSSL Releases
 OpenSSL 3.5
 -----------
 
-### Changes between 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 [xx XXX xxxx]
+### Changes between 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 [16 Sep 2025]
 
  * Avoided a potential race condition introduced in 3.5.1, where
    `OSSL_STORE_CTX` kept open during lookup while potentially being used

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 0d3b5a0b70d5c705ad2244e3f048f4d270250e47..5d8a83f43068cf344151b2b0dfc688532746cb80 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ OpenSSL Releases
 OpenSSL 3.5
 -----------
 
-### Major changes between OpenSSL 3.5.2 and OpenSSL 3.5.3 [under development]
+### Major changes between OpenSSL 3.5.2 and OpenSSL 3.5.3 [16 Sep 2025]
 
   * Added FIPS 140-3 PCT on DH key generation.
 

diff --git a/VERSION.dat b/VERSION.dat
index 4604189ab23e2985ad2dddd7731d42e53774c131..8a2893b68006ea6b8ca63bb6f19a1a3fd1f9ce0e 100644 (file)
--- a/VERSION.dat
+++ b/VERSION.dat
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 MAJOR=3
 MINOR=5
 PATCH=3
-PRE_RELEASE_TAG=dev
+PRE_RELEASE_TAG=
 BUILD_METADATA=
-RELEASE_DATE=""
+RELEASE_DATE="16 Sep 2025"
 SHLIB_VERSION=3