diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index b729154e2be4e000c80d384abae24845bc945d10..025b5a71b37388fce637535f4b0969219dc26430 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "2.25.2" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
+  :version "2.25.3" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
   :depends-on ()
   :components
   ((:file "asdf")
diff --git a/asdf.lisp b/asdf.lisp
index 3fb6e4e391189da7826d0469c120b086b8623f4f..428d6e897237ff215f0b21bde3b45dc209d79f43 100644
--- a/asdf.lisp
+++ b/asdf.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp ; coding: utf-8 -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.25.2: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.25.3: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
          ;; "2.345.6" would be a development version in the official upstream
          ;; "2.345.0.7" would be your seventh local modification of official release 2.345
          ;; "2.345.6.7" would be your seventh local modification of development version 2.345.6
-         (asdf-version "2.25.2")
+         (asdf-version "2.25.3")
          (existing-asdf (find-class 'component nil))
          (existing-version *asdf-version*)
          (already-there (equal asdf-version existing-version)))
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@
                    :redefined-functions ',redefined-functions)))
           (pkgdcl
            :asdf
-           :nicknames (:asdf-utilities) ;; DEPRECATED! Do not use, for backward compatibility only.
            :use (:common-lisp)
            :redefined-functions
            (#:perform #:explain #:output-files #:operation-done-p