diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4af0053..5f6bcab0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 - [#1513](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1513): Fix interop on `Thread/sleep` with numbers that aren't already longs
 - [#1624](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/pull/1624): Use Oracle GraalVM 21 ([@lispyclouds](https://github.com/lispyclouds))
 - Use PGO to speed up loops (now 2-3x faster for `(time (loop [val 0 cnt 10000000] (if (pos? cnt) (recur (inc val) (dec cnt)) val)))`!)
+- Bump babashka.cli to 0.7.53
 
 ## 1.3.184 (2023-08-22)
 
diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index 07de537c..b30c02ad 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         org.clojure/data.priority-map {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}
         insn/insn {:mvn/version "0.5.2"}
         org.clojure/core.rrb-vector {:mvn/version "0.1.2"}
-        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.7.51"}
+        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.7.53"}
         org.babashka/http-client {:mvn/version "0.4.15"}
         ;; native image bloat with ordered 1.5.10
         org.flatland/ordered {:mvn/version "1.5.9"}}
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index b50eeaac..13506fc9 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
                  [com.github.clj-easy/graal-build-time "0.1.0"]
                  [rewrite-clj/rewrite-clj "1.1.47"]
                  [insn/insn "0.5.2"]
-                 [org.babashka/cli "0.7.51"]
+                 [org.babashka/cli "0.7.53"]
                  [org.babashka/http-client "0.4.15"]]
   :plugins       [[org.kipz/lein-meta-bom "0.1.1"]]
   :metabom {:jar-name "metabom.jar"}
diff --git a/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn b/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
index 07de537c..b30c02ad 100644
--- a/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
+++ b/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         org.clojure/data.priority-map {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}
         insn/insn {:mvn/version "0.5.2"}
         org.clojure/core.rrb-vector {:mvn/version "0.1.2"}
-        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.7.51"}
+        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.7.53"}
         org.babashka/http-client {:mvn/version "0.4.15"}
         ;; native image bloat with ordered 1.5.10
         org.flatland/ordered {:mvn/version "1.5.9"}}