From f810188632ad75aca8524ab699a887540873f0bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xuechun Hou <xuechun@google.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:52:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bump VERSION to 2.53.0 (#1833)

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2f10078b6f..52108d1d9f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-PKG_VERSION="2.52.0"
+PKG_VERSION="2.53.0"