diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14de7dc..df06250 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+1.5.4
+======
+- Update configure.ac.in syntax
+- Fix #53: taskmanager translations
+- Translation Updates:
+  Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
+  Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician,
+  German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
+  Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese
+  (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish,
+  Ukrainian
+
 1.5.3
 ======
 - Fix rendering bug (Fixes #44)
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index c0e2b74..725f5fd 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ dnl *** Version information ***
 dnl ***************************
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_major], [1])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_minor], [5])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [3])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [4])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version], [taskmanager_version_major().taskmanager_version_minor().taskmanager_version_micro()ifelse(taskmanager_version_tag(), [git], [taskmanager_version_tag()-taskmanager_version_build()], [taskmanager_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl ***************************