Merge branch 'release/4.5.0' into support/4

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [4.5.0] - 2024-03-18
+
+
 ### Changed
 - Using unregistered static class methods in expressions now also triggers a deprecation notice because we will drop support for this in the next major release [#813](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/813)
 

libs/Smarty.class.php

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class Smarty extends Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase
     /**
      * smarty version
      */
-    const SMARTY_VERSION = '4.4.1';
+    const SMARTY_VERSION = '4.5.0';
     /**
      * define variable scopes
      */