diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 88693305..336ed3ec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-05-16 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version, releasing avrdude-5.4.
+
 2007-05-16 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* avrdude.conf.in: Fix AVR910 devcodes.  It seems that the AVR109
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 646eabf7..e754cc16 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.3cvs, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.4, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST