diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 895b89498..7f8a2477f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,59 @@
+plinth (0.45.0) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Doma Gergő ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (Hungarian)
+
+  [ Pavel Borecki ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (Czech)
+
+  [ advocatux ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (Spanish)
+
+  [ Joseph Nuthalapati ]
+  * udiskie: Finish merging udiskie into storage
+  * apache: Switch to php-fpm from mod_php
+
+  [ Allan Nordhøy ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (Chinese (Simplified))
+  * Translated using Weblate (Italian)
+  * Translated using Weblate (Norwegian Bokmål)
+
+  [ Herdir ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (French)
+
+  [ Michael Pimmer ]
+  * Backups: first UI sceleton for remote / encrypted backups
+  * Backups: allow testing the connection of ssh locations
+  * Backups, remote repositories: implement init, info and some test
+  * Backups, remote repositories: uniform parameter handling
+  * Backups, remote repositories: start using sshfs
+  * Backups, remote repositories: integrate to backups index page
+  * Backups, remote repositories: re-use template for root location
+  * Backups, remote repositories: use object-oriented repositories
+  * Backups, remote backups: fix unittests
+  * Backups, remote repositories: create/delete/restore of remote repos
+  * Backups, remote repositories: change network_storage to dict
+  * Backups, remote repository: adapt functional tests
+  * Backups: remove unittests to backups test directory
+  * Backups: remove archive name when creating an archive
+  * Backups: support for encrypted repositories
+  * Backups: Cleanup and improved error handling
+  * Backups: functional tests update; restoring backup bugfix
+  * Backups: allow creating archive in unmounted repository
+  * Backups: allow using keyfile as credentials for sshfs mounts
+  * Backups: notify that credentials of remote backups are stored
+  * Backups: unittests for accessing repository with borg directly
+  * Backups: bump module version
+
+  [ James Valleroy ]
+  * backups: Make validator errors translatable
+  * functional_tests: Move backup test into backups feature
+
+  [ ssantos ]
+  * Translated using Weblate (German)
+
+ -- James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>  Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:05:51 -0500
+
 plinth (0.44.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Pavel Borecki ]
diff --git a/plinth/__init__.py b/plinth/__init__.py
index cf561e31a..7019cb716 100644
--- a/plinth/__init__.py
+++ b/plinth/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 Package init file.
 """
 
-__version__ = '0.44.0'
+__version__ = '0.45.0'