diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6241222..20a392a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@
 /pandas-1.3.5.tar.gz
 /pandas-1.5.1.tar.gz
 /pandas-1.5.2.tar.gz
+/pandas-1.5.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6.patch b/e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..544bc87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+From e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Patrick Hoefler <61934744+phofl@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:37:26 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #50925 on branch 1.5.x (TST: Remove fsspec
+ internals from tests) (#51038)
+
+TST: Remove fsspec internals from tests (#50925)
+
+Co-authored-by: Thomas Li <47963215+lithomas1@users.noreply.github.com>
+---
+ pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py |  2 --
+ pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py    | 24 +++++-------------------
+ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
+index 4f033fd63f978..fd1b30eca449e 100644
+--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
++++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
+@@ -50,10 +50,8 @@ def test_read_csv(cleared_fs, df1):
+ 
+ 
+ def test_reasonable_error(monkeypatch, cleared_fs):
+-    from fsspec import registry
+     from fsspec.registry import known_implementations
+ 
+-    registry.target.clear()
+     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="nosuchprotocol"):
+         read_csv("nosuchprotocol://test/test.csv")
+     err_msg = "test error message"
+diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
+index 6907d8978e603..538969b7e226c 100644
+--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
++++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
+@@ -22,17 +22,12 @@
+ @pytest.fixture
+ def gcs_buffer(monkeypatch):
+     """Emulate GCS using a binary buffer."""
+-    from fsspec import (
+-        AbstractFileSystem,
+-        registry,
+-    )
+-
+-    registry.target.clear()  # remove state
++    import fsspec
+ 
+     gcs_buffer = BytesIO()
+     gcs_buffer.close = lambda: True
+ 
+-    class MockGCSFileSystem(AbstractFileSystem):
++    class MockGCSFileSystem(fsspec.AbstractFileSystem):
+         def open(*args, **kwargs):
+             gcs_buffer.seek(0)
+             return gcs_buffer
+@@ -41,7 +36,8 @@ def ls(self, path, **kwargs):
+             # needed for pyarrow
+             return [{"name": path, "type": "file"}]
+ 
+-    monkeypatch.setattr("gcsfs.GCSFileSystem", MockGCSFileSystem)
++    # Overwrites the default implementation from gcsfs to our mock class
++    fsspec.register_implementation("gs", MockGCSFileSystem, clobber=True)
+ 
+     return gcs_buffer
+ 
+@@ -54,9 +50,6 @@ def test_to_read_gcs(gcs_buffer, format):
+ 
+     GH 33987
+     """
+-    from fsspec import registry
+-
+-    registry.target.clear()  # remove state
+ 
+     df1 = DataFrame(
+         {
+@@ -131,9 +124,6 @@ def test_to_csv_compression_encoding_gcs(gcs_buffer, compression_only, encoding)
+     GH 35677 (to_csv, compression), GH 26124 (to_csv, encoding), and
+     GH 32392 (read_csv, encoding)
+     """
+-    from fsspec import registry
+-
+-    registry.target.clear()  # remove state
+     df = tm.makeDataFrame()
+ 
+     # reference of compressed and encoded file
+@@ -173,12 +163,8 @@ def test_to_csv_compression_encoding_gcs(gcs_buffer, compression_only, encoding)
+ @td.skip_if_no("gcsfs")
+ def test_to_parquet_gcs_new_file(monkeypatch, tmpdir):
+     """Regression test for writing to a not-yet-existent GCS Parquet file."""
+-    from fsspec import (
+-        AbstractFileSystem,
+-        registry,
+-    )
++    from fsspec import AbstractFileSystem
+ 
+-    registry.target.clear()  # remove state
+     df1 = DataFrame(
+         {
+             "int": [1, 3],
diff --git a/python-pandas.spec b/python-pandas.spec
index fda3023..1ec716f 100644
--- a/python-pandas.spec
+++ b/python-pandas.spec
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 %bcond_without single_tests
 
 Name:           python-pandas
-Version:        1.5.2
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.5.3
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Python library providing high-performance data analysis tools
 
 # The entire source is BSD-3-Clause and covered by LICENSE, except:
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ Source0:        https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/archive/v%{version}/pandas-
 # https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/49913
 Patch:          https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/49913.patch
 
+# [PATCH] Backport PR #50925 on branch 1.5.x (TST: Remove fsspec internals from
+# tests) (#51038)
+#
+# TST: Remove fsspec internals from tests (#50925)
+# https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/commit/e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6
+#   fixes:
+# ERROR at setup of test_to_read_gcs[…]
+Patch:          https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/commit/e73d4d29203dab20e001beb1090d07683de583d6.patch
+
 %global _description %{expand:
 pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing
 high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data
@@ -590,12 +599,43 @@ k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestStata and test_strl_latin1)"
 k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestStata and test_utf8_writer)"
 %endif
 
+# TODO: Why does this fail?
+# E           assert 0 == 1
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not test_switch_options"
+
+%ifarch x86_64
+# These are brittle and fail with tiny floating-point differences on COPR
+# builders but not Koji builders, like:
+# >           raise_assert_detail(obj, msg, left, right, index_values=index_values)
+# E           AssertionError: numpy array are different
+# E
+# E           numpy array values are different (16.66667 %)
+# E           [left]:  [0.09999999999999999, 1.0, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0]
+# E           [right]: [0.1, 1.0, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0]
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestSeriesPlots and test_bar_log)"
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestDataFramePlotsSubplots and test_bar_log_no_subplots)"
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestDataFramePlotsSubplots and test_bar_log_subplots)"
+%endif
+
 %if 0%{?fedora} > 37
 # The text of an error message has changed in libarrow/pyarrow 10, which is
 # harmless but breaks one test. Disable it until a patch is available upstream.
 #   CI: pyarrow 10 broke our ci
 #   https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/50058
 k="${k-}${k+ and }not test_arrow_array"
+
+# Probably also related to upstream pinning pyarrow < 10 for CI:
+# E   TypeError: Expected unicode, got pyarrow.lib.StringScalar
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not (TestConstructors and test_from_sequence_of_strings_pa_array)"
+
+# TODO: Why does this fail? Does it need a slightly older version of dask?
+# E           AssertionError: Caused unexpected warning(s): [('RuntimeWarning', RuntimeWarning('invalid value encountered in cast'), '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-pandas-1.5.3-1.fc39.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/dtypes/cast.py', 1836)]
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not test_construct_dask_float_array_int_dtype_match_ndarray"
+
+# Incompatibility with python-xarray ≥ 2023.01.0. See:
+# https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/v2023.02.0/doc/whats-new.rst#breaking-changes-1
+# CFTimeIndex.get_loc() got an unexpected keyword argument 'method'
+k="${k-}${k+ and }not test_xarray_cftimeindex_nearest"
 %endif
 
 %if 0%{?fc37}
@@ -669,6 +709,9 @@ export PYTHONHASHSEED="$(
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 27 2023 Benjamin A. Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> - 1.5.3-1
+- Update to 1.5.3 (close RHBZ#2162303)
+
 * Fri Jan 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.2-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 048ab2b..45b979b 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pandas-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 9551c403f37f516b3547966d3ca90b0014c9cfe254a342600e2d17199ea8ea256de05d6784ac422f75cf9c1dcca893962c33fb97e65be45ffc2518a0e164070d
+SHA512 (pandas-1.5.3.tar.gz) = 220ec6923ebc1d0063537d8a62f53a8ce2631c35c1f3f5b63ee892617507603553db69a2d06f8cd338366e008f746994c3420ee58d151df1b94f5b5719b03b43