diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 86296fa9a..b5397d38f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>52</version>
+    <version>53</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index f00e1fd0f..1e28dd6bc 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@
     <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">
       Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 #286.
     </action>
+    <action type="update" dev="kinow" due-to="Dependabot">
+      Bump commons-parent from 52 to 53 #299.
+    </action>
   </release>
   <release version="4.4" date="2019-07-05" description="Maintenance release.">
     <action issue="COLLECTIONS-710" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Yu Shi, Gary Gregory">