diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4d62f00a..ad7aeaee 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Sep 14 19:32:43 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* configure.in: let's ship 2.4.5 before egtting too much
+	  troubles with 2.4.4 errors.
+
 Fri Sep 14 12:26:58 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* encoding.c entities.c: do not output hexadecimal charrefs
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 3a8eadfa..e53688c6 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
 LIBXML_MAJOR_VERSION=2
 LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION=4
-LIBXML_MICRO_VERSION=4
+LIBXML_MICRO_VERSION=5
 LIBXML_VERSION=$LIBXML_MAJOR_VERSION.$LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION.$LIBXML_MICRO_VERSION
 LIBXML_VERSION_INFO=`expr $LIBXML_MAJOR_VERSION + $LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION`:$LIBXML_MICRO_VERSION:$LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION
 
diff --git a/include/libxml/xmlwin32version.h b/include/libxml/xmlwin32version.h
index 7c263ba0..065cbee8 100644
--- a/include/libxml/xmlwin32version.h
+++ b/include/libxml/xmlwin32version.h
@@ -27,21 +27,21 @@ extern void xmlCheckVersion(int version);
  *
  * the version string like "1.2.3"
  */
-#define LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION "2.4.4"
+#define LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION "2.4.5"
 
 /**
  * LIBXML_VERSION:
  *
  * the version number: 1.2.3 value is 1002003
  */
-#define LIBXML_VERSION 20404
+#define LIBXML_VERSION 20405
 
 /**
  * LIBXML_VERSION_STRING:
  *
  * the version number string, 1.2.3 value is "1002003"
  */
-#define LIBXML_VERSION_STRING "20404"
+#define LIBXML_VERSION_STRING "20405"
 
 /**
  * LIBXML_TEST_VERSION:
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern void xmlCheckVersion(int version);
  * Macro to check that the libxml version in use is compatible with
  * the version the software has been compiled against
  */
-#define LIBXML_TEST_VERSION xmlCheckVersion(20404);
+#define LIBXML_TEST_VERSION xmlCheckVersion(20405);
 
 #if 0
 /**