diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index d9afc84a..7fadb7b4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1659,6 +1659,7 @@ Ville Skytt
  for reporting that there are places where ntohs() is assigned to different types
  for adapting cThread::ThreadId() to recent kernels
  for some improvements to the man pages
+ for fixing some spelling errors in 'newplugin'
 
 Steffen Beyer <cpunk@reactor.de>
  for fixing setting the colored button help after deleting a recording in case the next
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 3aa97f5f..f6aece02 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5165,3 +5165,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   On its old transponder, the ProSieben/SAT.1 channels also had their EPG data
   wrongly encoded, but apparently on the new transponder they started broadcasting
   on this month, they got it right.
+
+2007-04-28: Version 1.5.3
+
+- Fixed some spelling errors in 'newplugin' (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index eddb4e50..13bd14fe 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.288 2007/03/03 15:39:05 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.289 2007/04/28 14:47:24 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 
 // VDR's own version number:
 
-#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.2"
-#define VDRVERSNUM   10502  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.3"
+#define VDRVERSNUM   10503  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // The plugin API's version number:
 
diff --git a/newplugin b/newplugin
index dbb56e6d..30622868 100755
--- a/newplugin
+++ b/newplugin
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: newplugin 1.31 2007/02/24 13:23:08 kls Exp $
+# $Id: newplugin 1.32 2007/04/28 14:46:39 kls Exp $
 
 $PLUGIN_NAME = $ARGV[0] || die "Usage: newplugin <name>\n";
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ $MAKEFILE = qq
 # The official name of this plugin.
 # This name will be used in the '-P...' option of VDR to load the plugin.
 # By default the main source file also carries this name.
-# IPORTANT: the presence of this macro is important for the Make.config
+# IMPORTANT: the presence of this macro is important for the Make.config
 # file. So it must be defined, even if it is not used here!
 #
 PLUGIN = $PLUGIN_NAME
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ bool cPlugin${PLUGIN_CLASS}::Start(void)
 
 void cPlugin${PLUGIN_CLASS}::Stop(void)
 {
-  // Stop any background activities the plugin shall perform.
+  // Stop any background activities the plugin is performing.
 }
 
 void cPlugin${PLUGIN_CLASS}::Housekeeping(void)