diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 22fa218..880a297 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+### 0.4.5
+(May 8th, 2014)
+
+- Fix where rqworker broke on Python 2.6. Thanks, Marko!
+
+
 ### 0.4.4
 (May 7th, 2014)
 
diff --git a/rq/version.py b/rq/version.py
index 3c99708..e1fe0f1 100644
--- a/rq/version.py
+++ b/rq/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
-VERSION = '0.4.4'
+VERSION = '0.4.5'