diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fdc13b5..3357519 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+4.4.5 (2016-04-22)
+------------------
+- Translation updates: Amharic, Catalan, Esperanto, Greek, Swedish
+
 4.4.4 (2015-03-15)
 ------------------
 - Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index f156440..583eb02 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ dnl *** Version information ***
 dnl ***************************
 m4_define([eyes_version_major], [4])
 m4_define([eyes_version_minor], [4])
-m4_define([eyes_version_micro], [4])
+m4_define([eyes_version_micro], [5])
 m4_define([eyes_version_build], [r@REVISION@])
-m4_define([eyes_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([eyes_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([eyes_version], [eyes_version_major().eyes_version_minor().eyes_version_micro()ifelse(eyes_version_tag(), [git], [eyes_version_tag()-eyes_version_build()], [eyes_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl ***************************