diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..215bd1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Git v1.8.4.5 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.8.4.4
+--------------------
+
+ * Recent update to remote-hg that attempted to make it work better
+   with non ASCII pathnames fed Unicode strings to the underlying Hg
+   API, which was wrong.
+
+ * "git submodule init" copied "submodule.$name.update" settings from
+   .gitmodules to .git/config without making sure if the suggested
+   value was sensible.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7f13d8f..8f7a460 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.8.4.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4.4]
+* link:v1.8.4.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4.5]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.8.4.5.txt[1.8.4.5],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt[1.8.4.4],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt[1.8.4.3],
   link:RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt[1.8.4.2],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 8155755..919a1d4 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.4.3
+DEF_VER=v1.8.4.5
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index ba00ad8..cb02f31 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.5.txt
\ No newline at end of file