From fde2ba5bb3b6d84359760e23784198c0e4785fbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Smalley <tyler@tailscale.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:45:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] VERSION.txt: this is v1.53.0 (#10018)

Signed-off-by: Tyler Smalley <tyler@tailscale.com>
---
 VERSION.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index ba0a71911..3f4830156 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.51.0
+1.53.0