diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d2dbdd2d..b07826f89 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ CMakeFiles
 CTestTestfile.cmake
 DartConfiguration.tcl
 cmake_install.cmake
-
+venv/
 .tox
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e363bbd0f..ce7eb35eb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14) # I like pie
 
-project(PocketSphinx VERSION 5.0.2
+project(PocketSphinx VERSION 5.0.3
   DESCRIPTION "A small speech recognizer"
   HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx"
   LANGUAGES C)
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 414beadf8..2e81f3fb6 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ recursive-exclude * *.DS_Store
 recursive-exclude * __pycache__
 recursive-exclude * *.so
 recursive-exclude * *.egg-info
+recursive-exclude venv *
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c3b44d84e..343caea0b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-PocketSphinx 5.0.0
+PocketSphinx 5.0.3
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Not released yet!
+The NEWS file has not been updated for some time.  See the GitHub
+releases page at https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/releases
+instead.
 
 Pocketsphinx 0.8
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8fd80bdbc..d0883dd07 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PocketSphinx 5.0.2
+PocketSphinx 5.0.3
 ==================
 
 This is PocketSphinx, one of Carnegie Mellon University's open source large
diff --git a/cython/README.md b/cython/README.md
index 7b45ce629..bc390f927 100644
--- a/cython/README.md
+++ b/cython/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PocketSphinx 5.0.2
+PocketSphinx 5.0.3
 ==================
 
 This is PocketSphinx, one of Carnegie Mellon University's open source large
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index c1a7be042..1626c76f2 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
 project = 'PocketSphinx'
-copyright = '2022, David Huggins-Daines'
+copyright = '2023, David Huggins-Daines'
 author = 'David Huggins-Daines'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '5.0.2'
+release = '5.0.3'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt b/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt
index 7b42f7b65..c392af12e 100644
--- a/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 find_package(Doxygen)
 if(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
-  set(DOXYGEN_PROJECT_NUMBER 5.0.2)
+  set(DOXYGEN_PROJECT_NUMBER 5.0.3)
   set(DOXYGEN_EXAMPLE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/examples)
   set(DOXYGEN_SORT_MEMBER_DOCS NO)
   set(DOXYGEN_USE_MATHJAX YES)
diff --git a/include/pocketsphinx.h b/include/pocketsphinx.h
index 879689aea..4dbcd7b04 100644
--- a/include/pocketsphinx.h
+++ b/include/pocketsphinx.h
@@ -1095,8 +1095,8 @@ void ps_get_all_time(ps_decoder_t *ps, double *out_nspeech,
 /**
  * @mainpage PocketSphinx API Documentation
  * @author David Huggins-Daines <dhdaines@gmail.com>
- * @version 5.0.2
- * @date July 31, 2023
+ * @version 5.0.3
+ * @date December 28, 2023
  *
  * @tableofcontents{HTML:1}
  *