diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index f9be66722228c2e3a6b2dba0ee6e9d9f46ac27ad..59d83ad73641d55914efbf836ae9052781fe84a5 100644
--- a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
+++ b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Set up the version of GeoModel as a cache variable, so that other
 # sub-projects could use this value.
-set( GeoModel_VERSION "4.4.5" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "4.5.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )