diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b03d0ae..bda514f 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.3.45
+==================================
+* Bug Fixes:
+    - Bug 373209 FEATURES=test/USE=test mapping via USE_ORDER
+    - Bug 629398 QA Notice for executables writable by non-root user
+    - Bug 634980 zstd --long=31 binary package decompression support
+    - Bug 662388 asyncio.create_subprocess_exec support for python2
+    - Bug 662668 emerge --keep-going AttributeError
+    - Bug 663022 FileNotFoundError with FEATURES=metadata-transfer
+
+
 portage-2.3.44
 ==================================
 * Bug Fixes:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 52cda62..7cb4e2e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name = 'portage',
-	version = '2.3.44',
+	version = '2.3.45',
 	url = 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage',
 	author = 'Gentoo Portage Development Team',
 	author_email = 'dev-portage@gentoo.org',