diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 89e86dc6e20..15e1265be4c 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -116,9 +116,6 @@ Bug Fixes
 * LUCENE-6748: UsageTrackingQueryCachingPolicy no longer caches trivial queries
   like MatchAllDocsQuery. (Adrien Grand)
 
-* LUCENE-6774: Remove classloader hack in MorfologikFilter. (Robert Muir,
-  Uwe Schindler)
-
 * LUCENE-6781: Fixed BoostingQuery to rewrite wrapped queries. (Adrien Grand)
 
 * LUCENE-6783: Removed side effects from FuzzyLikeThisQuery.rewrite.
@@ -163,11 +160,6 @@ Tests
 * LUCENE-6752: Add Math#random() to forbiddenapis.  (Uwe Schindler,
   Mikhail Khludnev, Andrei Beliakov)
 
-* LUCENE-6760, SOLR-7958: Move TestUtil#randomWhitespace to the only
-  Solr test that is using it. The method is not useful for Lucene tests
-  (and easily breaks, e.g., in Java 9 caused by Unicode version updates).
-  (Uwe Schindler)
-
 Changes in Backwards Compatibility Policy
 
 * LUCENE-6742: The Lovins & Finnish implementation of SnowballFilter
@@ -184,6 +176,21 @@ Changes in Runtime Behavior
 * LUCENE-6784: IndexSearcher's query caching is enabled by default. Run
   indexSearcher.setQueryCache(null) to disable. (Adrien Grand)
 
+======================= Lucene 5.3.1 =======================
+
+Bug Fixes
+
+* LUCENE-6774: Remove classloader hack in MorfologikFilter. (Robert Muir,
+  Uwe Schindler)
+
+Tests
+
+* LUCENE-6760, SOLR-7958: Move TestUtil#randomWhitespace to the only
+  Solr test that is using it. The method is not useful for Lucene tests
+  (and easily breaks, e.g., in Java 9 caused by Unicode version updates).
+  (Uwe Schindler)
+
+
 ======================= Lucene 5.3.0 =======================
 
 New Features
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Version.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Version.java
index b4886e6dc2f..1e11a102e4c 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Version.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Version.java
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ public final class Version {
   @Deprecated
   public static final Version LUCENE_5_3_0 = new Version(5, 3, 0);
 
+  /**
+   * Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 5.3.1 release.
+   * @deprecated Use latest
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  public static final Version LUCENE_5_3_1 = new Version(5, 3, 1);
+
   /**
    * Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 5.4.0 release.
    * @deprecated Use latest
diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 77211624993..f8432b6e88f 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -166,36 +166,22 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-7941: multivalued params are concatenated when using config API (noble)
 
-* SOLR-7949: Resolve XSS issue in Admin UI stats page (David Chiu via janhoy)
-
 * SOLR-7956: There are interrupts on shutdown in places that can cause ChannelAlreadyClosed
   exceptions which prevents proper closing of transaction logs, interfere with the IndexWriter,
   the hdfs client and other things. (Mark Miller, Scott Blum)
 
-* SOLR-7972: Fix VelocityResponseWriter template encoding issue.
-  Templates must be UTF-8 encoded. (Erik Hatcher)
-
-* SOLR-7929: SimplePostTool (also bin/post) -filetypes "*" now works properly in 'web' mode (Erik Hatcher)
-
 * SOLR-7954: Fixed an integer overflow bug in the HyperLogLog code used by the 'cardinality' option
   of stats.field to prevent ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in a distributed search when a large precision
   is selected and a large number of values exist in each shard (hossman)
 
-* SOLR-7988: SolrJ could not make requests to handlers with '/admin/' prefix (noble , ludovic Boutros)
-
 * SOLR-7844: Zookeeper session expiry during shard leader election can cause multiple leaders.
   (Mike Roberts, Mark Miller, Jessica Cheng)
 
-* SOLR-8000: security.json is not loaded on server start (noble)
-
-* SOLR-8004: RuleBasedAuthorization plugin does not work for the collection-admin-edit permission (noble)
-
 * SOLR-7984: wrong and misleading error message 'no default request handler is registered' (noble, hossman)
 
 * SOLR-8001: Fixed bugs in field(foo,min) and field(foo,max) when some docs have no values
   (David Smiley, hossman)
 
-* SOLR-7978: Fixed example/files update-script.js to be Java 7 and 8 compatible. (Erik Hatcher)
 
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
@@ -259,6 +245,27 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-7999: SolrRequestParser tests no longer depend on external URLs
   that may fail to work.  (Uwe Schindler)
 
+==================  5.3.1 ==================
+
+Bug Fixes
+----------------------
+
+* SOLR-7949: Resolve XSS issue in Admin UI stats page (David Chiu via janhoy)
+
+* SOLR-8000: security.json is not loaded on server start (noble)
+
+* SOLR-8004: RuleBasedAuthorization plugin does not work for the collection-admin-edit permission (noble)
+
+* SOLR-7972: Fix VelocityResponseWriter template encoding issue.
+  Templates must be UTF-8 encoded. (Erik Hatcher)
+
+* SOLR-7929: SimplePostTool (also bin/post) -filetypes "*" now works properly in 'web' mode (Erik Hatcher)
+
+* SOLR-7978: Fixed example/files update-script.js to be Java 7 and 8 compatible. (Erik Hatcher)
+
+* SOLR-7988: SolrJ could not make requests to handlers with '/admin/' prefix (noble , ludovic Boutros)
+
+
 ==================  5.3.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release