Bump versions to 0.53.1 for stable release
diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 05213a7..a5df7e2 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "January 2020" "meson 0.53.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "January 2020" "meson 0.53.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 5229b6b..b1336a6 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
     OptionDictType = T.Dict[str, 'UserOption[T.Any]']
 
-version = '0.53.0'
+version = '0.53.1'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'vs2019', 'xcode']
 
 default_yielding = False