diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 9fc2406dc8..2edc84efdb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ Daniel Molkentin <daniel.molkentin@suse.com>
 Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
 Philippe Seewer <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>
 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com>
-Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg@gmail.com>
+Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
 Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
-David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
 Lukas Nykryn <lnykryn@redhat.com>
+David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
 Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
 Colin Guthrie <colin@mageia.org>
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Zoltán Böszörményi <zboszor@pr.hu>
 Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
 John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it>
+Tomasz Paweł Gajc <tpgxyz@gmail.com>
 Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com>
 Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
@@ -79,8 +80,6 @@ Norbert Lange <norbert.lange@andritz.com>
 Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
 Stefan Reimer <it@startux.de>
 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
-Tomasz Paweł Gajc <tpgxyz@gmail.com>
-tpgxyz <tpgxyz@gmail.com>
 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
 Chapman Flack <g2@anastigmatix.net>
@@ -165,6 +164,7 @@ Alexander Todorov <atodorov@redhat.com>
 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
 Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com>
+Andrew J. Hesford <ajh@sideband.org>
 Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
 Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@oracle.com>
 Anssi Hannula <anssi@mageia.org>
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ Enno Boland <g@s01.de>
 Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
 Eugene S. Sobolev <sobolev@protei.ru>
 Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>
+Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.de>
 Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.de>
 Florian Albrechtskirchinger <falbrechtskirchinger@gmail.com>
 Florian Gamböck <mail@floga.de>
@@ -268,6 +269,7 @@ Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@rubenkerkhof.com>
 Rumbaut Thomas <Thomas.Rumbaut@digipolis.gent>
 Rusty Bird <rustybird@openmailbox.org>
 Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>
+Sergei Iudin <tsipa740@gmail.com>
 Sergey Fionov <fionov@gmail.com>
 Shawn W Dunn <sfalken@opensuse.org>
 Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
@@ -305,6 +307,5 @@ mwberry <mwberry@users.noreply.github.com>
 nabijaczleweli <nabijaczleweli@gmail.com>
 privb0x23 <privb0x23@users.noreply.github.com>
 realtime-neil <neil@rtr.ai>
-tpg <tpgxyz@gmail.com>
 xtraeme <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>
 Дамјан Георгиевски <gdamjan@gmail.com>
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ea683abdee..b99f18716e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@
 Rendered view: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/NEWS.md
 
+dracut-053
+==========
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* **dracut.sh:**
+  *  unfreeze /boot on exit ([d87ae137](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/d87ae13721d04a8a2192d896af224ac6965caf70))
+  *  proper return code for inst_multiple in dracut-init.sh ([d437970c](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/d437970c013e3287de263a1e60a117b15239896c))
+* **fcoe:**
+  *  rename rd.nofcoe to rd.fcoe ([6f7823bc](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/6f7823bce65dd4b52497dbb94892b637fd06471a))
+  *  rd.nofcoe=0 should disable fcoe ([805b46c2](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/805b46c2a81e04d69fc3af912942568516d05ee7))
+* **i18n:**
+  *  get rid of `eval` calls ([5387ed24](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/5387ed24c8b33da1214232d57ab1831e117aaba0))
+  *  create the keyboard symlinks again ([9e1c7f3d](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/9e1c7f3deadd387adaa97b189593b4ba3d7c6d5a))
+* **network-manager:**
+  *  run as a service if systemd module is present ([c17c5b76](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/c17c5b7604c8d61dd1c00ee22d44c3a5d7d6dfee))
+  *  rework how NM is started in debug mode ([34c73b33](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/34c73b339baa025dfd8916379c4d191be34a8af5))
+* **drm:**  skip empty modalias files in drm module setup ([c3f24184](https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/c3f241849de6434d063ef92e6880f6b0335c1800))
+
+
 dracut-052
 ==========