release: 7.53.1
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 55eefba..27ca118 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  Command line options:         205
  curl_easy_setopt() options:   244
  Public functions in libcurl:  61
- Contributors:                 1506
+ Contributors:                 1507
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
  o urldata: include curl_sspi.h when Windows SSPI is enabled [2]
  o formdata: check for EOF when reading from stdin [3]
  o tests: Set CHARSET & LANG to UTF-8 in 1035, 2046 and 2047 [4]
+ o url: Default the proxy CA bundle location to CURL_CA_BUNDLE [5]
+ o rand: added missing #ifdef HAVE_FCNTL_H around fcntl.h header [6]
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -21,9 +23,9 @@
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
-  Daniel Stenberg, İsmail Dönmez, jveazey on github, Ray Satiro,
-  Shachaf Ben-Kiki, Viktor Szakáts,
-  (6 contributors)
+  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, İsmail Dönmez, jveazey on github, Ray Satiro,
+  Sergii Pylypenko, Shachaf Ben-Kiki, Viktor Szakáts,
+  (8 contributors)
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
 
@@ -33,3 +35,5 @@
  [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1276
  [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1281
  [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1277
+ [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1257
+ [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1285
diff --git a/docs/THANKS b/docs/THANKS
index bd71992..0336e29 100644
--- a/docs/THANKS
+++ b/docs/THANKS
@@ -1269,11 +1269,13 @@
 Sergei Kuzmin
 Sergei Nikulov
 Sergey Tatarincev
+Sergii Pylypenko
 Sergio Ballestrero
 Serj Kalichev
 Seshubabu Pasam
 Seth Mos
 Sh Diao
+Shachaf Ben-Kiki
 Shao Shuchao
 Sharad Gupta
 Shard
@@ -1506,5 +1508,6 @@
 vanillajonathan on github
 wmsch on github
 zelinchen on github
+İsmail Dönmez
 Štefan Kremeň
 Никита Дорохин