diff --git a/app/app.py b/app/app.py
index 21b9adab92..671ce44258 100644
--- a/app/app.py
+++ b/app/app.py
@@ -674,7 +674,9 @@ async def logging_middleware(
             )
             raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="No client information")
 
-        ip_address = request.client.host
+        ip_address = str(
+            request.client.host,
+        )  # host can be an Object of type IPv4Address or IPv6Address and would be refused by redis
         port = request.client.port
         client_address = f"{ip_address}:{port}"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8d4080c544..a0beb7bba8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = [{ name = "AEECL ECLAIR" }]
 
 # Hyperion follows Semantic Versioning
 # https://semver.org/
-version = "5.2.2"
+version = "5.2.3"
 minimal-titan-version-code = 179
 requires-python = ">= 3.11, < 3.13"