From 64d382da786ad2dd51337496f35a6b516a695352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Douglas <38992547+matthewdouglas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 10:53:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Release 0.45.0

---
 bitsandbytes/__init__.py | 2 +-
 setup.py                 | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/__init__.py b/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
index 8a08cd1d7..c4baa8034 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@
     "optim.optimizer.MockArgs": False,
 }
 
-__version__ = "0.44.2.dev"
+__version__ = "0.45.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 096b434fb..e6def8fff 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def has_ext_modules(self):
 
 setup(
     name="bitsandbytes",
-    version="0.44.2.dev",
+    version="0.45.0",
     author="Tim Dettmers",
     author_email="dettmers@cs.washington.edu",
     description="k-bit optimizers and matrix multiplication routines.",