diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 013d837a..6d5f08a0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey Changelog
 ---------------------------------------
 
+Version 5.3.4
+=============
+This release includes
+- Allow ssl version to be negotiated automatically
+
 Version 5.3.3
 =============
 This release includes
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 696974da..d36527ea 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ MAINTAINER "Apache CloudStack" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
 LABEL Description="Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey; Python based CloudStack command line interface"
 LABEL Vendor="Apache.org"
 LABEL License=ApacheV2
-LABEL Version=5.3.3
+LABEL Version=5.3.4
 
 COPY . /cloudstack-cloudmonkey
 RUN pip install requests
diff --git a/cloudmonkey/config.py b/cloudmonkey/config.py
index c5faec26..47235ef0 100644
--- a/cloudmonkey/config.py
+++ b/cloudmonkey/config.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-__version__ = "5.3.3"
+__version__ = "5.3.4"
 __description__ = "Command Line Interface for Apache CloudStack"
 __maintainer__ = "The Apache CloudStack Team"
 __maintaineremail__ = "dev@cloudstack.apache.org"
diff --git a/cloudmonkey/requester.py b/cloudmonkey/requester.py
index 914854fa..b4fed264 100644
--- a/cloudmonkey/requester.py
+++ b/cloudmonkey/requester.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def login(url, username, password, domain="/", verifysslcert=False):
 
     sessionkey = ''
     session = requests.Session()
-    session.mount('https://', SSLAdapter(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1))
+    session.mount('https://', SSLAdapter())
 
     try:
         resp = session.post(url, params=args, verify=verifysslcert)
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def sign_request(params, secret_key):
     args["signature"] = sign_request(args, credentials['secretkey'])
 
     session = requests.Session()
-    session.mount('https://', SSLAdapter(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1))
+    session.mount('https://', SSLAdapter())
 
     try:
         response = session.get(url, params=args, verify=verifysslcert)
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 9c30ccb3..e9e79a85 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '5.3.3'
+version = '5.3.4'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = version