diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5e35ca65f4b41ba8f06e169d4bb6c0eff9d2b0d1..fd70b643e2f0ee6e65e054754394a73ea28a358d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: multicrispr
 Title: Multi-locus multi-purpose Crispr/Cas design 
-Version: 1.5.2
+Version: 1.5.3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Authors@R: c(person("Aditya",   "Bhagwat",    NULL, "aditya.bhagwat@mpi-bn.mpg.de",   c("aut", "cre")),
             person( "Rene",     "Wiegandt",   NULL, "rene.wiegandt@mpi-bn.mpg.de",      "ctb"),