diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 09ec7625..6dee23cd 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Features:
 * Refactor: validator-key-gen refactored for package usage
 * Add: new mnemonic to set - PrivKeyMnemonic
+* Fix: toml parser in bu
 
diff --git a/bash-utils/bash-utils.sh b/bash-utils/bash-utils.sh
index 7ff4d19a..a1253e14 100644
--- a/bash-utils/bash-utils.sh
+++ b/bash-utils/bash-utils.sh
@@ -1929,7 +1929,8 @@ function getTomlVarNames() {
        elif  [ -z "$line" ] || [[ $line = \#* ]] ; then 
             continue
        elif [[ $line = *=* ]] ; then
-           name=$(echo "$line" | cut -d= -f1 | xargs)
+           local name=$(echo "$line" | cut -d= -f1 | xargs)
+           name=$(echo "$name" | tr '.' '_') # Fix: replace dots with undescore
            [ ! -z "$name" ] && echo "$tag $name"
        fi
     done
diff --git a/scripts/version.sh b/scripts/version.sh
index 51b73c55..b758b8f3 100644
--- a/scripts/version.sh
+++ b/scripts/version.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-echo "v0.3.52"
+echo "v0.3.53"