diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 97b11a1f3..43969efad 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version 2.5.4 (2025-09-01)
+
+- Fix handling of ``_access.update`` to correctly append the current user.  
+- Override ``bytesToHumanReadable`` to display units as KB, MB, GB, TB.  
+- Add ``marshmallow_utils`` and sanitize metadata fields to remove unsafe HTML.  
+
 Version 2.5.3 (2025-06-12)
 
 - keywords: add missing source field used in old migrated records
diff --git a/cds/version.py b/cds/version.py
index 79fe7a329..d7862e9fe 100644
--- a/cds/version.py
+++ b/cds/version.py
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@
 
 """CDS version."""
 
-__version__ = "2.5.3"
+__version__ = "2.5.4"