diff --git a/chromadb/__init__.py b/chromadb/__init__.py
index 73bdc6aef1c..cc49fb1eadc 100644
--- a/chromadb/__init__.py
+++ b/chromadb/__init__.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 __settings = Settings()
 
-__version__ = "0.5.2"
+__version__ = "0.5.3"
 
 
 # Workaround to deal with Colab's old sqlite3 version