Updated CHANGES entry for release
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 Version 2.5.3
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-(bugfix release, release date to be announced)
+(bugfix release, released on October 17th 2010)
 
 - fixed an operator precedence error introduced in 2.5.2.  Statements
   like "-foo.bar" had their implicit parentheses applied around the