From 450a42a00da7b48aa1450d692ff812f4d4781607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vedaant Singh <vedaantsingh706@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:18:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: version bump, new release, changelog update

---
 CHANGELOG.md              | 9 +++++++++
 pyproject.toml            | 2 +-
 server.json               | 4 ++--
 src/pyscrappy/__init__.py | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 65cd049..56ad961 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ All notable changes to PyScrappy are documented here. The format is based on
 [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/), and this project adheres to
 [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
+## [1.5.3] - 2026-08-12
+
+### Fixed
+- `Selector.xpath()` no longer crashes on a scalar XPath like `count(...)` or `boolean(...)`; the value is returned as a single-item string result (#136).
+- `MetadataExtractor` drops empty `keywords` entries produced by trailing or repeated commas, e.g. `"a, , b,"` -> `["a", "b"]` (#137).
+
+### Changed
+- `AdaptiveStore.save()` writes the fingerprint store atomically (temp file + `os.replace`), so a crash mid-write or a concurrent write can no longer corrupt `adaptive.json` (#138).
+
 ## [1.5.2] - 2026-08-10
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 64b36e4..0d7b00c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "pyscrappy"
-version = "1.5.2"
+version = "1.5.3"
 description = "A robust, all-in-one Python web scraping toolkit"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/server.json b/server.json
index b14dd18..da1eaab 100644
--- a/server.json
+++ b/server.json
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy",
     "source": "github"
   },
-  "version": "1.5.2",
+  "version": "1.5.3",
   "packages": [
     {
       "registryType": "pypi",
       "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
       "identifier": "pyscrappy",
-      "version": "1.5.2",
+      "version": "1.5.3",
       "runtimeHint": "uvx",
       "transport": {
         "type": "stdio"
diff --git a/src/pyscrappy/__init__.py b/src/pyscrappy/__init__.py
index fab4d2d..958deb2 100644
--- a/src/pyscrappy/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pyscrappy/__init__.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
     register(_cls.name, _cls)
 del _cls
 
-__version__ = "1.5.2"
+__version__ = "1.5.3"
 
 __all__ = [
     # Core