diff --git a/libpwquality/.footprint b/libpwquality/.footprint
index c2b20fc8c..3bd4111e7 100644
--- a/libpwquality/.footprint
+++ b/libpwquality/.footprint
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/pwquality.pc
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python3.10/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pwquality-1.4.4-py3.10.egg-info
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pwquality-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pwquality.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/
diff --git a/libpwquality/.signature b/libpwquality/.signature
index 5f7dd05ec..73e508e77 100644
--- a/libpwquality/.signature
+++ b/libpwquality/.signature
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/contrib.pub
-RWSagIOpLGJF39LS4L3c0Ua8P5e3j3VEM5rvghs16U73JRCB15RFEhyTsrhbJ7Jbz5pFfIGNiDBJdeHR97QQ/F8Pa5/ohk9L7AI=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = e442b895615300eb887da982923446af1e510f57654a10c5dc6ee1814ba32eed
-SHA256 (.footprint) = 346af73011aebe2631df41edbe6b17ca5508537d340fbc87ac1ad739169f5efd
-SHA256 (libpwquality-1.4.4.tar.bz2) = d43baf23dc6887fe8f8e9b75cabaabc5f4bbbaa0f9eff44278d276141752a545
+RWSagIOpLGJF3xX/5a2aLlXBTvau6Ag9nKV+iIWYYGo43AmSgWP5Rl/XxUm249FE6aIZU15bVygCDqSjUIn5ZJsDQrNieug/Tg4=
+SHA256 (Pkgfile) = c2ce3c4eb27d280a4adc16e98b9b680504c48ba92f95c0f13bb0ec683f7e4a69
+SHA256 (.footprint) = a3e3b4160f68e82222d706392514809016bee688eea44d414ef1c7ef852aa50d
+SHA256 (libpwquality-1.4.5.tar.bz2) = 6fcf18b75d305d99d04d2e42982ed5b787a081af2842220ed63287a2d6a10988
diff --git a/libpwquality/Pkgfile b/libpwquality/Pkgfile
index abc2c998e..d5cf905f5 100644
--- a/libpwquality/Pkgfile
+++ b/libpwquality/Pkgfile
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
 # Depends on: cracklib linux-pam python3
 
 name=libpwquality
-version=1.4.4
-release=2
+version=1.4.5
+release=1
 source=(https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality/releases/download/$name-$version/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
 
 build() {
   cd $name-$version
+
   sed '/mr_IN/d' -i po/LINGUAS
   autoreconf -fvi
   export SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ build() {
     --enable-pam \
     --disable-nls
   sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool
+
   make
   make DESTDIR=$PKG install
 }