diff --git a/docs/config.toml b/docs/config.toml
index 4897e94bd..63d9cef15 100644
--- a/docs/config.toml
+++ b/docs/config.toml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ twitter = "GoHugoIO"
 [params]
   description = "The world’s fastest framework for building websites"
   ## Used for views in rendered HTML (i.e., rather than using the .Hugo variable)
-  release = "0.44"
+  release = "0.45-DEV"
   ## Setting this to true will add a "noindex" to *EVERY* page on the site
   removefromexternalsearch = false
   ## Gh repo for site footer (include trailing slash)
diff --git a/helpers/hugo.go b/helpers/hugo.go
index c93513a09..e804f8f6a 100644
--- a/helpers/hugo.go
+++ b/helpers/hugo.go
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ func (v HugoVersion) NextPatchLevel(level int) HugoVersion {
 // CurrentHugoVersion represents the current build version.
 // This should be the only one.
 var CurrentHugoVersion = HugoVersion{
-	Number:     0.44,
+	Number:     0.45,
 	PatchLevel: 0,
-	Suffix:     "",
+	Suffix:     "-DEV",
 }
 
 func hugoVersion(version float32, patchVersion int, suffix string) string {
diff --git a/snapcraft.yaml b/snapcraft.yaml
index 5fbbce3ee..95c8fbb18 100644
--- a/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 name: hugo
-version: "0.44"
+version: "0.45-DEV"
 summary: Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator
 description: |
   Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is
   optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory
   with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.
 confinement: strict
-grade: stable # "devel" or "stable"
+grade: devel # "devel" or "stable"
 
 apps:
   hugo:
diff --git a/temp/0.44-relnotes-ready.md b/temp/0.44-relnotes-ready.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e5f633818..000000000
--- a/temp/0.44-relnotes-ready.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-
-Hugo `0.44` is the follow-up release, or **The Sequel**, of the very well received `0.43` only days ago. That release added **Hugo Pipes**, with SCSS/SASS support, assets bundling and minification, ad-hoc image processing and much more.
-
-This is mostly a bug-fix release, but it also includes several important improvements.
-
-Many complained that their SVG images vanished when browsed from the `hugo server`. With **Hugo Pipes** MIME types suddenly got really important, but Hugo's use of `Suffix` was ambiguous. This became visible when we redefined the `image/svg+xml` to work with **Hugo Pipes**. We have now added a `Suffixes` field on the MIME type definition in Hugo, which is a list of one or more filename suffixes the MIME type is identified with. If you need to add a custom MIME type definition, this means that you also need to specify the full MIME type as the key, e.g. `image/svg+xml`.
-
-Hugo now has:
-
-* 27120+ [stars](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/stargazers)
-* 443+ [contributors](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/graphs/contributors)
-* 239+ [themes](http://themes.gohugo.io/)
-
-## Notes
-* `MediaType.Suffix` is deprecated and replaced with a plural version,  `MediaType.Suffixes`, with a more specific definition. You will get a detailed WARNING in the console if you need to do anything.
-
-## Enhancements
-* Allow multiple file suffixes per media type [b874a1ba](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/b874a1ba7ab8394dc741c8c70303a30a35b63e43) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4920](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4920)
-* Clean up the in-memory Resource reader usage [47d38628](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/47d38628ec0f4e72ff17661f13456b2a1511fe13) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4936](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4936)
-* Move opening of the transformed resources after cache check [0024dcfe](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/0024dcfe3e016c67046de06d1dac5e7f5235f9e1) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 
-* Improve type support in `resources.Concat` [306573de](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/306573def0e20ec16ee5c447981cc09ed8bb7ec7) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4934](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4934)
-* Flush `partialCached` cache on rebuilds [6b6dcb44](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6b6dcb44a014699c289bf32fe57d4c4216777be0) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4931](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4931)
-* Include the transformation step in the error message [d96f2a46](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/d96f2a460f58e91d8f6253a489d4879acfec6916) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4924](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4924)
-* Exclude *.svg from CRLF/LF conversion [9c1e8208](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/9c1e82085eb07d5b4dcdacbe82d5bafd26e08631) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) 
-
-## Fixes
-
-* Fix `resources.Concat` for transformed resources [beec1fc9](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/beec1fc98e5d37bba742d6bc2a0ff7c344b469f8) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4936](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4936)
-* Fix static filesystem for themed multihost sites [80c8f3b8](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/80c8f3b81a9849080e64bf877288ede28d960d3f) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4929](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4929)
-* Set permission of embedded templates to 0644 [2b73e89d](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/2b73e89d6d2822e86360a6c92c87f539677c119b) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) 
-