diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e53ea18..20d6a9f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -406,14 +406,14 @@ Download [precompiled libusb for
 windows](http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/) and extract it to the
 libusb directory:
 
-    wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
-    7z x -olibusb libusb-1.0.20.7z
+    wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.22/libusb-1.0.22.7z
+    7z x -olibusb libusb-1.0.22.7z
 
 Build [libftdi](http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/) from source:
 
-    wget http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.2.tar.bz2
-    tar xjvf libftdi1-1.2.tar.bz2
-    cd libftdi1-1.2
+    wget http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.4.tar.bz2
+    tar xjvf libftdi1-1.4.tar.bz2
+    cd libftdi1-1.4
     cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/Toolchain-i686-w64-mingw32.cmake \
         -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=../libusb/include/libusb-1.0 \
         -DLIBUSB_LIBRARIES="-L../../libusb/MinGW32/static -lusb-1.0" \
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index af31fed..85e3f94 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.3-a4
+0.5.3-a5
diff --git a/spi.c b/spi.c
index a8d8f6d..aecd357 100644
--- a/spi.c
+++ b/spi.c
@@ -551,6 +551,8 @@ int spi_set_interface(const char *intf)
 
 int spi_init(void)
 {
+    struct ftdi_version_info fv;
+
     LOG(DEBUG, "spi_nrefs=%d, spi_dev_open=%d", spi_nrefs, spi_dev_open);
 
     spi_nrefs++;
@@ -560,7 +562,10 @@ int spi_init(void)
         return 0;
     }
 
-    LOG(ALL, "csr-spi-ftdi " VERSION ", git rev " GIT_REVISION);
+    fv = ftdi_get_library_version();
+    LOG(ALL, "csr-spi-ftdi " VERSION ", git rev " GIT_REVISION ", libftdi %s-%s",
+		fv.version_str, fv.snapshot_str);
+
 
     if (ftdi_init(&ftdic) < 0) {
         SPI_ERR("FTDI: init failed");
@@ -879,6 +884,7 @@ int spi_isopen(void)
 #ifdef SPI_STATS
 void spi_output_stats(void)
 {
+    struct ftdi_version_info fv;
     double xfer_pct = NAN, avg_read = NAN, avg_write = NAN, rate = NAN, iops = NAN;
     double ftdi_rate = NAN, ftdi_xfers_per_io = NAN, avg_ftdi_xfer = NAN, ftdi_short_rate = NAN;
     struct timeval tv;
@@ -889,6 +895,8 @@ void spi_output_stats(void)
     if (!fp)
         return;
 
+    fv = ftdi_get_library_version();
+
     /* Calculate timeranges until now */
     if (gettimeofday(&tv, NULL) < 0)
         LOG(WARN, "gettimeofday failed: %s", strerror(errno));
@@ -936,6 +944,7 @@ void spi_output_stats(void)
     fprintf(fp,
             "*** FTDI Statistics ********************************************************\n"
             "csr-spi-ftdi version: " VERSION " (git rev " GIT_REVISION ")\n"
+            "libftdi version: %s-%s\n"
             "Time open: %ld.%02ld s\n"
             "Time in xfer: %ld.%02ld s (%.2f%% of open time)\n"
             "Reads: %ld (%ld bytes, %.2f bytes avg read size)\n"
@@ -948,6 +957,7 @@ void spi_output_stats(void)
             "            %.2f xfers/IO, %.2f bytes/xfer)\n"
             "SPI max clock: %lu kHz, min clock: %lu kHz, slowdowns: %lu\n"
             "****************************************************************************\n",
+            fv.version_str, fv.snapshot_str,
             spi_stats.tv_open.tv_sec, spi_stats.tv_open.tv_usec / 10000,
             spi_stats.tv_xfer.tv_sec, spi_stats.tv_xfer.tv_usec / 10000, xfer_pct,
             spi_stats.reads, spi_stats.read_bytes, avg_read,