diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index baed063..3973ae6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 *nordlicht* uses [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## 0.4.5 - 2017-01-09
+
+- introduce `nordlicht_generate_step` and `nordlicht_done` to the API, for simple, non-blocking applications
+- improve FFmpeg backwards compability down to v3.0 (thanks, Manuel!)
+- fix build on ARM platforms
+- correctly open files which contain a colon (thanks, Roland!)
+- various bug fixes and stability improvements
+
+- tool: when the user specifies a non-PNG file as output, warn them but don't fail
+
 ## 0.4.4 - 2016-01-24
 
 - introduce the convention that the nordlicht is always written to `VIDEOFILE.nordlicht.png`
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index fdbb1dd..c181d90 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
 project(nordlicht C)
 set(MAJOR_VERSION 0)
 set(MINOR_VERSION 4)
-set(PATCH_VERSION 4)
+set(PATCH_VERSION 5)
 set(NORDLICHT_VERSION "${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}.${PATCH_VERSION}")
 
 option (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build shared libraries." ON)