Preparing hbase release 2.5.3RC1; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md

Signed-off-by: Tak Lon (Stephen) Wu <taklwu@apache.org>
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e20a596..f036d3d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
 | [HBASE-27586](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27586) | Bump up commons-codec to 1.15 |  Major | dependencies, security |
 | [HBASE-27585](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27585) | Bump up jruby to 9.3.9.0 and related joni and jcodings to 2.1.43 and 1.0.57 respectively |  Major | jruby, security |
 | [HBASE-27547](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27547) | Close store file readers after region warmup |  Major | regionserver |
+| [HBASE-26967](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26967) | FilterList with FuzzyRowFilter and SingleColumnValueFilter evaluated with operator MUST\_PASS\_ONE doesn't work as expected |  Critical | Filters |
 
 
 ### SUB-TASKS:
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fea4c54..37ed404 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <revision>2.5.4-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+    <revision>2.5.3</revision>
     <!-- override on command line to have generated LICENSE files include
          diagnostic info for verifying notice requirements -->
     <license.debug.print.included>false</license.debug.print.included>