From 2c8f536647a65e5c8c7b9e805d46633fb24b73f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:10:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 1.53.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 8 ++++++++
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ca2a8ac5e..495207567 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
  * [feat]: add support for Firebase v6.0 (#391)
 
+## [1.53.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/compare/v1.52.0...v1.53.0) (2026-07-22)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add support for Guzzle 8 ([#677](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/issues/677)) ([6f4c5f6](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/commit/6f4c5f655607edfc332e6e9b63742cf13bbcfdd3))
+* Add workload identity federation support for AWS ECS tasks ([#496](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/issues/496)) ([#674](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/issues/674)) ([ed26eec](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/commit/ed26eec39b983ec00b26f0ff42a82d1786ff7f73))
+
 ## [1.52.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-php/compare/v1.51.0...v1.52.0) (2026-06-23)
 
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a63cb35e6..3f4830156 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.52.0
+1.53.0