diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index efc5be4..92bbf25 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -20,6 +20,79 @@
 # Be careful doing manual edits in this file. Do not change format
 # of release header or remove the below marker. This file is generated.
 # DO NOT REMOVE THIS MARKER; FOR INTERPOLATING CHANGES!-->
+## Release 2.4.5 - 2021-07-31
+
+
+
+### IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-26108](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26108) | add option to disable scanMetrics in TableSnapshotInputFormat |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-26025](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26025) | Add a flag to mark if the IOError can be solved by retry in thrift IOError |  Major | Thrift |
+| [HBASE-25986](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25986) | Expose the NORMALIZARION\_ENABLED table descriptor through a property in hbase-site |  Minor | Normalizer |
+| [HBASE-26012](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26012) | Improve logging and dequeue logic in DelayQueue |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-26020](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26020) | Split TestWALEntryStream.testDifferentCounts out |  Major | Replication, test |
+| [HBASE-25937](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25937) | Clarify UnknownRegionException |  Minor | Client |
+| [HBASE-25998](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25998) | Revisit synchronization in SyncFuture |  Major | Performance, regionserver, wal |
+| [HBASE-26000](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26000) | Optimize the display of ZK dump in the master web UI |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-25995](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25995) | Change the method name for DoubleArrayCost.setCosts |  Major | Balancer |
+| [HBASE-26002](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26002) | MultiRowMutationEndpoint should return the result of the conditional update |  Major | Coprocessors |
+| [HBASE-25993](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25993) | Make excluded SSL cipher suites configurable for all Web UIs |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-25987](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25987) | Make SSL keystore type configurable for HBase ThriftServer |  Major | Thrift |
+
+
+### BUG FIXES:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-24984](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24984) | WAL corruption due to early DBBs re-use when Durability.ASYNC\_WAL is used with multi operation |  Critical | rpc, wal |
+| [HBASE-26088](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26088) | conn.getBufferedMutator(tableName) leaks thread executors and other problems |  Critical | Client |
+| [HBASE-25973](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25973) | Balancer should explain progress in a better way in log |  Major | Balancer |
+| [HBASE-26083](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26083) | L1 miss metric is incorrect when using CombinedBlockCache |  Minor | BlockCache |
+| [HBASE-26086](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26086) | TestHRegionReplayEvents do not pass in branch-2 and throws NullPointerException |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-26036](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26036) | DBB released too early and dirty data for some operations |  Critical | rpc |
+| [HBASE-26068](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26068) | The last assertion in TestHStore.testRefreshStoreFilesNotChanged is wrong |  Major | test |
+| [HBASE-22923](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22923) | hbase:meta is assigned to localhost when we downgrade the hbase version |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-26030](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26030) | hbase-cleanup.sh did not clean the wal dir if hbase.wal.dir configured individually |  Major | scripts |
+| [HBASE-26035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26035) | Redundant null check in the compareTo function |  Minor | metrics, Performance |
+| [HBASE-25902](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25902) | Add missing CFs in meta during HBase 1 to 2.3+ Upgrade |  Critical | meta, Operability |
+| [HBASE-26028](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26028) | The view as json page shows exception when using TinyLfuBlockCache |  Major | UI |
+| [HBASE-26039](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26039) | TestReplicationKillRS is useless after HBASE-23956 |  Major | Replication, test |
+| [HBASE-25980](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25980) | Master table.jsp pointed at meta throws 500 when no all replicas are online |  Major | master, meta replicas, UI |
+| [HBASE-26013](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26013) | Get operations readRows metrics becomes zero after HBASE-25677 |  Minor | metrics |
+| [HBASE-25877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25877) | Add access  check for compactionSwitch |  Major | security |
+| [HBASE-25698](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25698) | Persistent IllegalReferenceCountException at scanner open when using TinyLfuBlockCache |  Major | BucketCache, HFile, Scanners |
+| [HBASE-26001](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26001) | When turn on access control, the cell level TTL of Increment and Append operations is invalid. |  Minor | Coprocessors |
+| [HBASE-25984](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25984) | FSHLog WAL lockup with sync future reuse [RS deadlock] |  Critical | regionserver, wal |
+| [HBASE-25997](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25997) | NettyRpcFrameDecoder decode request header wrong  when handleTooBigRequest |  Major | rpc |
+| [HBASE-25967](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25967) | The readRequestsCount does not calculate when the outResults is empty |  Major | metrics |
+| [HBASE-25981](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25981) | JVM crash when displaying regionserver UI |  Major | rpc, UI |
+
+
+### SUB-TASKS:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-26093](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26093) | Replication is stuck due to zero length wal file in oldWALs directory [master/branch-2] |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-24734](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24734) | RegionInfo#containsRange should support check meta table |  Major | HFile, MTTR |
+| [HBASE-25739](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25739) | TableSkewCostFunction need to use aggregated deviation |  Major | Balancer, master |
+| [HBASE-25992](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25992) | Polish the ReplicationSourceWALReader code for 2.x after HBASE-25596 |  Major | Replication |
+| [HBASE-25989](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25989) | FanOutOneBlockAsyncDFSOutput using shaded protobuf in hdfs 3.3+ |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-25947](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25947) | Backport 'HBASE-25894 Improve the performance for region load and region count related cost functions' to branch-2.4 and branch-2.3 |  Major | Balancer, Performance |
+| [HBASE-25969](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25969) | Cleanup netty-all transitive includes |  Major | . |
+
+
+### OTHER:
+
+| JIRA | Summary | Priority | Component |
+|:---- |:---- | :--- |:---- |
+| [HBASE-25934](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25934) | Add username for RegionScannerHolder |  Minor | . |
+| [HBASE-25521](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25521) | Change ChoreService and ScheduledChore to IA.Private |  Major | util |
+| [HBASE-26015](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26015) | Should implement getRegionServers(boolean) method in AsyncAdmin |  Major | Admin, Client |
+| [HBASE-25918](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25918) | Upgrade hbase-thirdparty dependency to 3.5.1 |  Critical | dependencies |
+
+
 ## Release 2.4.4 - 2021-06-14
 
 
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index a4815f6..19fbc58 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -20,6 +20,98 @@
 # Be careful doing manual edits in this file. Do not change format
 # of release header or remove the below marker. This file is generated.
 # DO NOT REMOVE THIS MARKER; FOR INTERPOLATING CHANGES!-->
+# HBASE  2.4.5 Release Notes
+
+These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-26088](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-26088) | *Critical* | **conn.getBufferedMutator(tableName) leaks thread executors and other problems**
+
+The API doc for Connection#getBufferedMutator(TableName) and Connection#getBufferedMutator(BufferedMutatorParams) mentioned that when user dont pass a ThreadPool to be used, we use the ThreadPool in the Connection.  But in reality, we were creating new ThreadPool in such cases.
+
+We are keeping the behaviour of code as is but corrected the Javadoc and also a bug of not closing this new pool while Closing the BufferedMutator.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25986](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25986) | *Minor* | **Expose the NORMALIZARION\_ENABLED table descriptor through a property in hbase-site**
+
+New config: hbase.table.normalization.enabled
+
+Default value: false
+
+Description: This config is used to set default behaviour of normalizer at table level. To override this at table level one can set NORMALIZATION\_ENABLED at table descriptor level and that property will be honored. Of course, this property at table level can only work if normalizer is enabled at cluster level using "normalizer\_switch true" command.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-22923](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22923) | *Major* | **hbase:meta is assigned to localhost when we downgrade the hbase version**
+
+Introduced new config: hbase.min.version.move.system.tables
+
+When the operator uses this configuration option, any version between
+the current cluster version and the value of "hbase.min.version.move.system.tables"
+does not trigger any auto-region movement. Auto-region movement here
+refers to auto-migration of system table regions to newer server versions.
+It is assumed that the configured range of versions does not require special
+handling of moving system table regions to higher versioned RegionServer.
+This auto-migration is done by AssignmentManager#checkIfShouldMoveSystemRegionAsync().
+Example: Let's assume the cluster is on version 1.4.0 and we have
+set "hbase.min.version.move.system.tables" as "2.0.0". Now if we upgrade
+one RegionServer on 1.4.0 cluster to 1.6.0 (\< 2.0.0), then AssignmentManager will
+not move hbase:meta, hbase:namespace and other system table regions
+to newly brought up RegionServer 1.6.0 as part of auto-migration.
+However, if we upgrade one RegionServer on 1.4.0 cluster to 2.2.0 (\> 2.0.0),
+then AssignmentManager will move all system table regions to newly brought
+up RegionServer 2.2.0 as part of auto-migration done by
+AssignmentManager#checkIfShouldMoveSystemRegionAsync().
+
+Overall, assuming we have system RSGroup where we keep HBase system tables, if we use
+config "hbase.min.version.move.system.tables" with value x.y.z then while upgrading cluster to
+version greater than or equal to x.y.z, the first RegionServer that we upgrade must
+belong to system RSGroup only.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25902](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25902) | *Critical* | **Add missing CFs in meta during HBase 1 to 2.3+ Upgrade**
+
+While upgrading cluster from 1.x to 2.3+ versions, after the active master is done setting it's status as 'Initialized', it attempts to add 'table' and 'repl\_barrier' CFs in meta. Once CFs are added successfully, master is aborted with PleaseRestartMasterException because master has missed certain initialization events (e.g ClusterSchemaService is not initialized and tableStateManager fails to migrate table states from ZK to meta due to missing CFs). Subsequent active master initialization is expected to be smooth. 
+In the presence of multi masters, when one of them becomes active for the first time after upgrading to HBase 2.3+, it is aborted after fixing CFs in meta and one of the other backup masters will take over and become active soon. Hence, overall this is expected to be smooth upgrade if we have backup masters configured. If not, operator is expected to restart same master again manually.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25877) | *Major* | **Add access  check for compactionSwitch**
+
+Now calling RSRpcService.compactionSwitch, i.e, Admin.compactionSwitch at client side, requires ADMIN permission.
+This is an incompatible change but it is also a bug, as we should not allow any users to disable compaction on a regionserver, so we apply this to all active branches.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25984](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25984) | *Critical* | **FSHLog WAL lockup with sync future reuse [RS deadlock]**
+
+Fixes a WAL lockup issue due to premature reuse of the sync futures by the WAL consumers. The lockup causes the WAL system to hang resulting in blocked appends and syncs thus holding up the RPC handlers from progressing. Only workaround without this fix is to force abort the region server.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25993](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25993) | *Major* | **Make excluded SSL cipher suites configurable for all Web UIs**
+
+Add "ssl.server.exclude.cipher.list" configuration to excluded cipher suites for the http server started by the InfoServer.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-25969](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25969) | *Major* | **Cleanup netty-all transitive includes**
+
+We have an (old) netty-all in our produced artifacts. It is transitively included from hadoop. It is needed by MiniMRCluster referenced from a few MR tests in hbase. This commit adds netty-all excludes everywhere else but where tests will fail unless the transitive is allowed through. TODO: move MR and/or MR tests out of hbase core.
+
+
+
 # HBASE  2.4.4 Release Notes
 
 These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
diff --git a/hbase-annotations/pom.xml b/hbase-annotations/pom.xml
index b7848d9..293ed51 100644
--- a/hbase-annotations/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-annotations/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
index 6665571..25314be 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-archetypes</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-client-project/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-client-project/pom.xml
index 38f36da..c08ccdc 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-client-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-client-project/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-archetypes</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-client-project</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml
index 0dbfc9b..427a0cc 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-archetypes</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client-project</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
index fbfd5ba..ffe2ef4 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-build-configuration</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>../hbase-build-configuration</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
index 8bd8e66..647cf02 100644
--- a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-build-configuration</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>../hbase-build-configuration</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>hbase-assembly</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-asyncfs/pom.xml b/hbase-asyncfs/pom.xml
index be4a628..afd9ac1 100644
--- a/hbase-asyncfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-asyncfs/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase-build-configuration</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>../hbase-build-configuration</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-build-configuration/pom.xml b/hbase-build-configuration/pom.xml
index 2723ef5..cc7adbf 100644
--- a/hbase-build-configuration/pom.xml
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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     <artifactId>hbase</artifactId>
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-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-checkstyle/pom.xml b/hbase-checkstyle/pom.xml
index e1cfc5a..bf61629 100644
--- a/hbase-checkstyle/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-checkstyle/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
 <artifactId>hbase-checkstyle</artifactId>
-<version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+<version>2.4.5</version>
 <name>Apache HBase - Checkstyle</name>
 <description>Module to hold Checkstyle properties for HBase.</description>
 <!--REMOVE-->
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>hbase</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
     <relativePath>..</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-client/pom.xml b/hbase-client/pom.xml
index 3f782c6..8e4a3c7 100644
--- a/hbase-client/pom.xml
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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-    <version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.4.5</version>
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   </parent>
 
diff --git a/hbase-common/pom.xml b/hbase-common/pom.xml
index 572d3f0..4ae977f 100644
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diff --git a/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml b/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
index 4b54c72..9bea91d 100644
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   <artifactId>hbase-endpoint</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-examples/pom.xml b/hbase-examples/pom.xml
index 8950802..ce9b76d 100644
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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   <artifactId>hbase-examples</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml b/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml
index 3fa7391..72dc742 100644
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
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   <artifactId>hbase-external-blockcache</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml b/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml
index 7f69d0e..144343f 100644
--- a/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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diff --git a/hbase-hadoop2-compat/pom.xml b/hbase-hadoop2-compat/pom.xml
index 532d0b4..3aba7fc 100644
--- a/hbase-hadoop2-compat/pom.xml
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
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diff --git a/hbase-hbtop/pom.xml b/hbase-hbtop/pom.xml
index 9a2a548..f718110 100644
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   <artifactId>hbase-hbtop</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-http/pom.xml b/hbase-http/pom.xml
index c29a649..ccc1479 100644
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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