diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 1c99cf0..e516bb9 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.4.4
+1.4.5
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index d08d526..c9c7160 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ charset-normalizer==2.1.1  # via requests
 click==8.1.3              # via pip-tools
 contourpy==1.0.6          # via matplotlib
 coverage[toml]==6.5.0     # via pytest-cov
-cryptography==43.0.1      # via azure-storage-blob
+cryptography==44.0.1      # via azure-storage-blob
 cycler==0.11.0            # via matplotlib
 distlib==0.3.6            # via -r requirements.txt
 docutils==0.19            # via python-daemon