diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f2bd5f0f7469957821a1584ad459fcf415fe25c0..7f26fda8ee2ce329ed4286108dc285052ef8d9bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+GNOME Logs 45.0
+===============
+
+* Improve app metainfo from Maximiliano Sandoval
+* Updates to Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Czech,
+  Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician,
+  Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kabyle,
+  Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Occitan, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese,
+  Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
+
 GNOME Logs 45.beta
 ==================
 
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Logs.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.Logs.appdata.xml.in
index 63965d832a2ce35b3d41a035020c3c0d754a1506..7c165c7b59c8952a1f65d6f7b21b4b7d3be5723f 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Logs.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Logs.appdata.xml.in
@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@
     </screenshot>
   </screenshots>
   <releases>
+    <release version="45.0" date="2024-03-22">
+      <description>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Improve app metainfo</li>
+          <li>Fix filters button style</li>
+          <li>Accelerator improvements</li>
+          <li>UI improvements</li>
+          <li>Meson improvements</li>
+          <li>Translation updates</li>
+          <li>New Faroese translation</li>
+        </ul>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="43.0" date="2022-09-23">
       <description>
         <ul>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 96193fd2c56f420e4a7b8d7e1ebbdc023a4bd056..ad281ee5e088c91fc0c9997eb7eb7496456957a1 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('gnome-logs', 'c', version : '45.beta', default_options : ['warning_level=1'], meson_version: '>= 0.59.0')
+project('gnome-logs', 'c', version : '45.0', default_options : ['warning_level=1'], meson_version: '>= 0.59.0')
 
 gl_name = meson.project_name()
 gl_version = meson.project_version()