diff --git a/doc/history.md b/doc/history.md
index bb07c2f..d2ddad7 100644
--- a/doc/history.md
+++ b/doc/history.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 3.45.0
+ * Update minecraft-data to 3.45.0
+ * UnicodeDecodeError when loading data for some minecraft versions on windows
+
 ## 3.20.0
  * Update minecraft-data to 3.20.0
 
diff --git a/minecraft_data/data b/minecraft_data/data
index 7b784ac..9d545f9 160000
--- a/minecraft_data/data
+++ b/minecraft_data/data
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7b784ac5e983a23f9570b485cdcf854d48517eb6
+Subproject commit 9d545f99a6aa8921f89c05de9a65f2a1ce6515a6
diff --git a/minecraft_data/tools.py b/minecraft_data/tools.py
index eb4ffcd..1377778 100644
--- a/minecraft_data/tools.py
+++ b/minecraft_data/tools.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 
 def convert(_dir, version, edition ='pc'):
-    with open(os.path.join(_dir, 'dataPaths.json')) as f:
+    with open(os.path.join(_dir, 'dataPaths.json'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
         datapaths = json.load(f)
     data = _grabdata(_dir, datapaths[edition][version])
     ret = {}
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def commondata(_dir, edition = 'pc'):
     common_path = os.path.join(_dir, edition, 'common')
     for common_file in os.listdir(common_path):
         key = common_file.split('.', 1)[0]
-        with open(os.path.join(common_path, common_file)) as f:
+        with open(os.path.join(common_path, common_file), encoding='utf-8') as f:
             data = json.load(f)
             ret.update({key: data})
     return ret
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def _grabdata(_dir, datapaths):
     for category, folder in datapaths.items():
         path = os.path.join(_dir, folder, f'{category}.json')
         if os.path.isfile(path):
-            with open(path) as fp:
+            with open(path, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
                 data[category] = json.load(fp)
     return data
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d985d5d..6aef489 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def package_files(directory):
     description='Provide easy access to minecraft data in python',
     license='MIT',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
-    version='3.20.0',
+    version='3.45.0',
     maintainer='Vito Gamberini',
     maintainer_email='vito@gamberini.email',
     url='https://github.com/SpockBotMC/python-minecraft-data',