diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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 # Changelog
 
+## 2.53.5 / 2025-06-27
+
+* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Add backward compatibility with the upcoming TSDB block index v3 #16762
+* [BUGFIX] Top-level: Update GOGC before loading TSDB #16521
+
 ## 2.53.4 / 2025-03-18
 
 * [BUGFIX] Runtime: fix GOGC is being set to 0 when installed with empty prometheus.yml file resulting high cpu usage. #16090
@@ -14,7 +19,7 @@
 Fix a bug where Prometheus would crash with a segmentation fault if a remote-read
 request accessed a block on disk at about the same time as TSDB created a new block.
 
-[BUGFIX] Remote-Read: Resolve occasional segmentation fault on query. #14515,#14523
+* [BUGFIX] Remote-Read: Resolve occasional segmentation fault on query. #14515,#14523
 
 ## 2.53.1 / 2024-07-10
 
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-2.53.4
+2.53.5