diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 80c40467..08a05017 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+## 0.45.1 (2023-07-27)
+
+### Fix
+
+- default factory in order to get proper default values. Closes #365
+
 ## 0.45.0 (2023-07-18)
 
 ### Feat
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cb8718d5..99973069 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "dataclasses-avroschema"
-version = "0.45.0"
+version = "0.45.1"
 description = "Generate Avro Schemas from Python classes. Serialize/Deserialize python instances with avro schemas"
 authors = ["Marcos Schroh <schrohm@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ exclude = [
 convention = "google"
 
 [tool.commitizen]
-version = "0.45.0"
+version = "0.45.1"
 tag_format = "$version"
 version_files = [
     "pyproject.toml:version",