diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ab1bbf467..e68408d58 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.15.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.15.3</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformats-binary</artifactId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index a4649cbdf..01a7f378e 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Active maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.15.3 (not yet released)
+2.15.3 (12-Oct-2023)
 
 #384: `Smile` decoding issue with `NonBlockingByteArrayParser`, concurrency
  (reported by Simon D)