diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index c5435061da..620ccf0c92 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "1.52.0"
+    ".": "1.53.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec9038b7e3..9dd81cd389 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 
+## [1.53.0](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/compare/v1.52.0...v1.53.0) (2026-01-22)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **generation:** update request builders and models ([#1411](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/issues/1411)) ([1d9707e](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/commit/1d9707ebef71dbfd88ecd151c83d0ebaccc05dfb))
+
 ## [1.52.0](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/compare/v1.51.0...v1.52.0) (2026-01-07)
 
 
diff --git a/msgraph/_version.py b/msgraph/_version.py
index 60e10de2d7..ca9957f776 100644
--- a/msgraph/_version.py
+++ b/msgraph/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-VERSION: str = '1.52.0'
+VERSION: str = '1.53.0'
 # x-release-please-end
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c46a888882..5a84c5a27d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
 name = "msgraph-sdk"
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-version = "1.52.0"
+version = "1.53.0"
 # x-release-please-end
 authors = [{name = "Microsoft", email = "graphtooling+python@microsoft.com"}]
 description = "The Microsoft Graph Python SDK"