From d7ee142df593f591f04321769fc619482eb2d70b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Sirois <john.sirois@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:17:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare the 2.1.153 release. (#2291)

---
 CHANGES.md     | 8 ++++++++
 pex/version.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 95bd7ce72..3104e96e6 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## 2.1.153
+
+This release fixes Pex runtime `sys.path` scrubbing to do less work and
+thus avoid errors parsing system installed distributions with bad
+metadata.
+
+* Remove Pex runtime scrubbing dist discovery. (#2290)
+
 ## 2.1.152
 
 This release fixes the computation of the hash of the code within a PEX
diff --git a/pex/version.py b/pex/version.py
index c50ddfdb8..fb30d1e57 100644
--- a/pex/version.py
+++ b/pex/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Copyright 2015 Pants project contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.md).
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).
 
-__version__ = "2.1.152"
+__version__ = "2.1.153"