diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 320c746..4389025 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.5.3] - 2022-12-19
+
+- Fix a bug with unsupported variables names in some runtimes
+- upgrade dependencies
+
 ## [1.5.2] - 2022-06-02
 
 - Fix a bug in SVG rendering of association diamonds
diff --git a/dist/nomnoml.js b/dist/nomnoml.js
index a5b6f0c..92bd6e2 100644
--- a/dist/nomnoml.js
+++ b/dist/nomnoml.js
@@ -2238,7 +2238,7 @@
         return processImports(loadFile(rootFileName), loadFile, maxImportDepth);
     }
 
-    var version = '1.5.2';
+    var version = '1.5.3';
 
     exports.Classifier = Classifier;
     exports.Compartment = Compartment;
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 88b52bf..f139358 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "nomnoml",
-  "version": "1.5.2",
+  "version": "1.5.3",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "nomnoml",
-      "version": "1.5.2",
+      "version": "1.5.3",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "graphre": "^0.1.3"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8b12a93..1bdcbde 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nomnoml",
-  "version": "1.5.2",
+  "version": "1.5.3",
   "description": "The sassy UML renderer that generates diagrams from text",
   "homepage": "http://www.nomnoml.com",
   "author": "Daniel Kallin <daniel.kallin@gmail.com>",
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index e9f301e..73e37c9 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export {
   processAsyncImports,
   ImportDepthError,
 } from './nomnoml'
-export var version = '1.5.2'
+export var version = '1.5.3'
 
 export * as skanaar from './util'
 export { parse, intermediateParse, transformParseIntoSyntaxTree } from './parser'