diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 1ab76b530..af4de5483 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  ".": "15.2.0",
+  ".": "15.3.0",
   "fusillade-arsenal": "4.1.0",
   "fusillade-core": "6.0.0",
   "onwards": "1.2.0"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 049239f4f..c5dbf0a46 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [15.3.0](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/compare/v15.2.0...v15.3.0) (2026-10-22)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **dwctl:** accept gzip, zstd and br request bodies and compressed batch files (DW-985) ([#2082](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2082)) ([673a64c](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/673a64c471e3026336803b29e45e228713f87ff2))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* answer unreadable request formats with 415, and count content types (DW-985) ([#2083](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2083)) ([58e3a52](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/58e3a527a892c9a3be0c6b2f20c7b8671babac76))
+* **build:** refresh the image CA bundle after eMudhra intermediate compromise ([#2077](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2077)) ([ae3442c](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/ae3442c03c4a2ea7c42771499039febc20932a57))
+* **deps:** bump webpki-roots to 1.0.10 to drop the compromised emSign root ([#2078](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2078)) ([552993e](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/552993e14111f07619e387d68a27d423ff62e34c))
+* **dwctl:** store /v1/messages request bodies as sent (DW-984) ([#2085](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/issues/2085)) ([c4bb16f](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/commit/c4bb16f299f44fe0f3bf900613d22f985862ac5d))
+
 ## [15.2.0](https://github.com/doublewordai/control-layer/compare/v15.1.0...v15.2.0) (2026-10-21)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a7e965142..6695176c1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1960,7 +1960,7 @@ checksum = "92773504d58c093f6de2459af4af33faa518c13451eb8f2b5698ed3d36e7c813"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "dwctl"
-version = "15.2.0"
+version = "15.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aes-gcm",
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/dwctl/Cargo.toml b/dwctl/Cargo.toml
index 797eb39e9..e940f2c1d 100644
--- a/dwctl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dwctl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "dwctl"
-version = "15.2.0" # x-release-please-version
+version = "15.3.0" # x-release-please-version
 edition = "2024"
 publish = false
 description = "The Doubleword Control Layer - A self-hostable observability and analytics platform for LLM applications"