diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index b1224f3..f894ba1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -282,3 +282,9 @@
         formats from crashing php.
     - Fixed profile page to automatically refresh page to show the results 
         when a user changes their color preferences.
+
+5.3.1 - 2026-02-25
+    - Fixed bug reported as Issue 1 where failure to select an action for a
+        part entered in a lognote crashed php in logentry.php.
+    - Fixed bug where the prompt to set flags on reference chain appeared
+        even when no flags were available to select in logentry.php.
diff --git a/database-initial.sql b/database-initial.sql
index 0ca4ab8..5493d43 100644
--- a/database-initial.sql
+++ b/database-initial.sql
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ set autocommit = 0;
 
 INSERT INTO
     `configs`
-VALUES (1, 'ol_version', '5.3.0'),
+VALUES (1, 'ol_version', '5.3.1'),
     (2, 'log_name', 'OpenLog'),
     (3, 'banner', '1'),
     (
diff --git a/database-update.sh b/database-update.sh
index 45e45c2..66d4380 100755
--- a/database-update.sh
+++ b/database-update.sh
@@ -144,3 +144,7 @@ do
 done
 echo "...done."
 #  -------------------------------------
+
+#  ---------- version 5.3.1 ------------
+#  Nothing to do
+#  -------------------------------------
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/database-update.sql b/database-update.sql
index a5d096e..4e4e876 100644
--- a/database-update.sql
+++ b/database-update.sql
@@ -83,4 +83,9 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `reflinks` (
     PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
 ) ENGINE = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
 
+-- --------------------------------------
+
+-- ---------- version 5.3.1 -------------
+-- Update version number
+UPDATE configs SET confvalue = "5.3.1" WHERE confname = "ol_version";
 -- --------------------------------------
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distfiles/CHANGELOG b/distfiles/CHANGELOG
index e78488e..828b2b1 100644
--- a/distfiles/CHANGELOG
+++ b/distfiles/CHANGELOG
@@ -283,4 +283,9 @@
     - Fixed profile page to automatically refresh page to show the results 
         when a user changes their color preferences.
 
-    
+5.3.1 - 2026-02-25
+    - Fixed bug reported as Issue 1 where failure to select an action for a
+        part entered in a lognote crashed php in logentry.php.
+    - Fixed bug where the prompt to set flags on reference chain appeared
+        even when no flags were available to select in logentry.php.
+
diff --git a/files-update.sh b/files-update.sh
index 962ad47..fd71ced 100755
--- a/files-update.sh
+++ b/files-update.sh
@@ -41,3 +41,15 @@ fi
 # ---------- version 5.2.4.4 -----------
 # No changes
 # --------------------------------------
+
+# ---------- version 5.2.5 -------------
+# No changes
+# --------------------------------------
+
+# ---------- version 5.3.0 -------------
+# No changes
+# --------------------------------------
+
+# ---------- version 5.3.1 -------------
+# No changes
+# --------------------------------------
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 8020cf3..71a20f8 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 APP_NAME="OpenLog"
 DEFAULT_DB_NAME="openlog"
-APP_VERSION="5.3.0"
+APP_VERSION="5.3.1"
 DOC_ROOT="/var/www"
 INSTALL_LOC="openlog"
 APACHE_CONF_DIR="/etc/apache2/conf-available"