diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e8b541636..9bbff6de6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SOURCES/centossecureboot201.cer
 SOURCES/centossecurebootca2.cer
 SOURCES/kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
 SOURCES/kernel-kabi-dw-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
-SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.tar.xz
+SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.tar.xz
 SOURCES/redhatsecureboot302.cer
 SOURCES/redhatsecureboot303.cer
 SOURCES/redhatsecureboot501.cer
diff --git a/.kernel.metadata b/.kernel.metadata
index 3ab89b339..f95ca970c 100644
--- a/.kernel.metadata
+++ b/.kernel.metadata
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 2ba40bf9138b48311e5aa1b737b7f0a8ad66066f SOURCES/centossecureboot201.cer
 bfdb3d7cffc43f579655af5155d50c08671d95e5 SOURCES/centossecurebootca2.cer
-0e2506adebf23fc6ef8153aa510d9af959c24ab3 SOURCES/kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
+6555324e7d1578f2ba4ad778652e94444938f154 SOURCES/kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
 618f2302d26295e300718d59e8551a0cdfc98022 SOURCES/kernel-kabi-dw-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
-463ae2b585d74c6121d03b2df22b0c56965d3f29 SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10.tar.xz
+4b3ae7a2b847f0440cfcc16036819b1aed599a53 SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.tar.xz
 13e5cd3f856b472fde80a4deb75f4c18dfb5b255 SOURCES/redhatsecureboot302.cer
 e89890ca0ded2f9058651cc5fa838b78db2e6cc2 SOURCES/redhatsecureboot303.cer
 ba0b760e594ff668ee72ae348adf3e49b97f75fb SOURCES/redhatsecureboot501.cer
diff --git a/SPECS/kernel.spec b/SPECS/kernel.spec
index 04ff5a069..9fac0164b 100644
--- a/SPECS/kernel.spec
+++ b/SPECS/kernel.spec
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
 # define buildid .local
 
 %define specversion 4.18.0
-%define pkgrelease 553.44.1.el8_10
+%define pkgrelease 553.45.1.el8_10
 
 # allow pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 553.44.1%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 553.45.1%{?dist}
 
 %define pkg_release %{specrelease}%{?buildid}
 
@@ -2709,7 +2709,7 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
-* Mon Mar 10 2025 Andrei Lukoshko <alukoshko@almalinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.44.1
+* Wed Mar 19 2025 Andrei Lukoshko <alukoshko@almalinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.45.1
 - hpsa: bring back deprecated PCI ids #CFHack #CFHack2024
 - mptsas: bring back deprecated PCI ids #CFHack #CFHack2024
 - megaraid_sas: bring back deprecated PCI ids #CFHack #CFHack2024
@@ -2720,10 +2720,25 @@ fi
 - kernel/rh_messages.h: enable all disabled pci devices by moving to
   unmaintained
 
-* Mon Mar 10 2025 Eduard Abdullin <eabdullin@almalinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.44.1
+* Wed Mar 19 2025 Eduard Abdullin <eabdullin@almalinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.45.1
 - Use AlmaLinux OS secure boot cert
 - Debrand for AlmaLinux OS
 
+* Thu Mar 06 2025 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> [4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10]
+- gve: trigger RX NAPI instead of TX NAPI in gve_xsk_wakeup (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: process XSK TX descriptors as part of RX NAPI (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: guard XSK operations on the existence of queues (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: guard XDP xmit NDO on existence of xdp queues (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: Fix an edge case for TSO skb validity check (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: Fix XDP TX completion handling when counters overflow (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- gve: Clear napi->skb before dev_kfree_skb_any() (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269] {CVE-2024-40937}
+- gve: ignore nonrelevant GSO type bits when processing TSO headers (Joshua Washington) [RHEL-73269]
+- can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-80733] {CVE-2023-52922}
+- gfs2: glock holder GL_NOPID fix (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-80694]
+- gfs2: Decode missing glock flags in tracepoints (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-80694]
+- net/smc: support ipv4 mapped ipv6 addr client for smc-r v2 (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-79810]
+- net: smc: fix spurious error message from __sock_release() (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-79812]
+
 * Wed Mar 05 2025 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> [4.18.0-553.44.1.el8_10]
 - HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-81825] {CVE-2024-50302}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a DMA to stack memory bug (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-81786]