diff --git a/build-locally.py b/build-locally.py
index d78427b..8ac9b84 100755
--- a/build-locally.py
+++ b/build-locally.py
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/bin/sh
+"""exec' "python3" "$0" "$@" #"""  # fmt: off # fmt: on
 #
 # This file has been generated by conda-smithy in order to build the recipe
 # locally.
 #
+# The line above this comment is a bash / sh / zsh guard
+# to stop people from running it with the wrong interpreter
 import glob
 import os
 import platform
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 9e04b40..563e69d 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {% set pkgname = "python-confluent-kafka" %}
 {% set name = "confluent-kafka" %}
-{% set version = "2.5.0" %}
+{% set version = "2.5.3" %}
 
 package:
   name: {{ pkgname|lower }}
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package:
 source:
   fn: {{ name }}-{{ version }}.tar.gz
   url: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/archive/refs/tags/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 4f29db32ddfb7ff56bf3c8776fa0f0377c0cc72dd36345c5c31d7dac94a8a2a9
+  sha256: 3f3f7bcb5a1a5ab1ebc13b2bcd8238dc37666115e3294a1489b4fd95231a2f93
   patches:
     - 0001-Fix-setup-for-windows.patch  # [win]
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ build:
   # This package does not support PyPy.
   # See https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/issues/1747#issuecomment-2112004625
   skip: true  # [python_impl == 'pypy']
-  number: 1
+  number: 0
   script:
     - export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I${PREFIX}/include"  # [unix]
     - export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -I${PREFIX}/lib"    # [unix]