diff --git a/docs/sphinx/changelog/index.rst b/docs/sphinx/changelog/index.rst
index efb5779b..cd8f48f7 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/changelog/index.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/changelog/index.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,24 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
+0.5.3 - 2026-01-07
+-----------------------
+
+Changed
+^^^^^^^
+- Pins PySpark to 4.0.1 in pyproject.toml
+- Fixes bug using ``drop_overlapping_assimilation_values`` in NWM operational fetching methods.
+- Fixes a bug in ``load_dataframe()``
+- Fixes a bug in unpacking metric results
+- Updates the Getting Started sphinx documentation
+
+Added
+^^^^^
+- Check for missing location IDs when cloning from s3
+- Row level calculated fields for forecast lead time bins
+- Brier Score and Brier Skill Score metrics
+
+
 0.5.2 - 2025-11-11
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 0ae37b6f..15c43bfc 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.1.3 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.2.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "accessible-pygments"
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+    {file = "netcdf4-1.7.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_27_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:835ae7bcef666c967241baeeee9bef9376ddb7527297b24735597131f6f628e2"},
+    {file = "netcdf4-1.7.2-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:73bd7eda3cefb04c4076e76911f652f5ed56bf434e0a3958e367932953437557"},
+    {file = "netcdf4-1.7.2-cp311-abi3-macosx_13_0_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:7e81c3c47f2772eab0b93fba8bb05b17b58dce17720e1bed25e9d76551deecd0"},
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+    {file = "netcdf4-1.7.2-cp311-abi3-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:999bfc4acebf400ed724d5e7329e2e768accc7ee1fa1d82d505da782f730301b"},
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@@ -5230,13 +5240,13 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pyspark"
-version = "4.0.0"
+version = "4.0.1"
 description = "Apache Spark Python API"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["main"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pyspark-4.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:38db1b4f6095a080d7605e578d775528990e66dc326311d93e94a71cfc24e5a5"},
+    {file = "pyspark-4.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9d1f22d994f60369228397e3479003ffe2dd736ba79165003246ff7bd48e2c73"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -7487,4 +7497,4 @@ type = ["pytest-mypy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.14"
-content-hash = "d58b5b98f7907c7460b8b74730d26bb66cc31f629ac68f79f091e12862da2c85"
+content-hash = "f8905a54cbdf6f075e9521642673b9d4781dab46509127f4479e6f9daffd417a"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6529f72d..21014372 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "teehr"
-version = "0.5.2"
+version = "0.5.3"
 description = "Tools for Exploratory Evaluation in Hydrologic Research"
 authors = [
     "RTI International",
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ h5py = ">=3.12.1,<4"
 pyarrow = ">=15.0.0,<21"
 httpx = ">=0.25.1,<1"
 pandas = ">=2.2.0,<3"
-pyspark = {extras = ["pandas-on-spark"], version = ">=4,<5"}
+pyspark = {extras = ["pandas-on-spark"], version = "4.0.1"}
 dataretrieval = ">=1.0.9,<2"
 numba = ">=0.60.0,<1"
 arch = ">=7.0.0,<8"
diff --git a/src/teehr/__init__.py b/src/teehr/__init__.py
index 66f08b11..e7847e56 100644
--- a/src/teehr/__init__.py
+++ b/src/teehr/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Initialize the TEEHR package."""
 import warnings
 
-__version__ = "0.5.2"
+__version__ = "0.5.3"
 
 with warnings.catch_warnings():
     warnings.simplefilter("ignore", UserWarning)