diff --git a/examples/flax/question-answering/run_qa.py b/examples/flax/question-answering/run_qa.py
index d0f3e8dcfe7b7b..edd290d5d79e20 100644
--- a/examples/flax/question-answering/run_qa.py
+++ b/examples/flax/question-answering/run_qa.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 Array = Any
 Dataset = datasets.arrow_dataset.Dataset
diff --git a/examples/flax/speech-recognition/run_flax_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py b/examples/flax/speech-recognition/run_flax_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
index faac03ec2b4006..fb61934a532144 100644
--- a/examples/flax/speech-recognition/run_flax_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
+++ b/examples/flax/speech-recognition/run_flax_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risk.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/flax/speech-recognition/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/flax/text-classification/run_flax_glue.py b/examples/flax/text-classification/run_flax_glue.py
index 1a93ea7261403b..ef39e9f6d2fa8c 100755
--- a/examples/flax/text-classification/run_flax_glue.py
+++ b/examples/flax/text-classification/run_flax_glue.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 Array = Any
 Dataset = datasets.arrow_dataset.Dataset
diff --git a/examples/flax/token-classification/run_flax_ner.py b/examples/flax/token-classification/run_flax_ner.py
index f8ba0161d55e7b..6f644d146ac7d1 100644
--- a/examples/flax/token-classification/run_flax_ner.py
+++ b/examples/flax/token-classification/run_flax_ner.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/token-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/audio-classification/run_audio_classification.py b/examples/pytorch/audio-classification/run_audio_classification.py
index 6de3579a10a287..18af3918f74c09 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/audio-classification/run_audio_classification.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/audio-classification/run_audio_classification.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/audio-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py b/examples/pytorch/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
index c6c3331815f660..909505558f1227 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/contrastive-image-text/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py b/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
index 49d2835a7e3295..8259472ffcc3bd 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/image-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification_no_trainer.py
index 0c8068d4d45d5c..4542c713da5134 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/image-classification/run_image_classification_no_trainer.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mae.py b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mae.py
index bad76ea4ead0da..9b6cbddc726ed7 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mae.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mae.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim.py b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim.py
index ed41935b6baa6a..9242890d42f0d8 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim_no_trainer.py
index e533ddfa8b01a5..1102fc24ec0883 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/run_mim_no_trainer.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/image-pretraining/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation.py b/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation.py
index 43ea5597b8f1dc..383922f3eee6a5 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.0.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation_no_trainer.py
index 1605f607acb0f3..92a27510560ce8 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/run_instance_segmentation_no_trainer.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.0.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/instance-segmentation/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm.py
index 794bb5f1c5d511..ffedbd2c2fa5f9 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/language-modeling/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm_no_trainer.py
index 43ecba5f4d8ff4..04e4b37a1d07e0 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_clm_no_trainer.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim.py
index 7b47d3aadbb639..a4af0c41ee90da 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/language-modeling/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim_no_trainer.py
index dfb1717fc2b95b..f8176907411dcb 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_fim_no_trainer.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
index 32f8937b29d006..6aaa47d73e19cd 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/language-modeling/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm_no_trainer.py
index c98687efadf53f..3ce5b53f0c3343 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_mlm_no_trainer.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/language-modeling/requirements.txt")
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_plm.py b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_plm.py
index e2e97a67ddfab7..054366a9738411 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_plm.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/language-modeling/run_plm.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.14.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/language-modeling/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag.py b/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
index 0ae409afee2ace..bcfb36e917fff8 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag_no_trainer.py
index 3987b6d20d5e17..4f6adbc7af8fb4 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice/run_swag_no_trainer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 # You should update this to your particular problem to have better documentation of `model_type`
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection.py b/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection.py
index c42c4e6b39223f..66110c3ac2efec 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.0.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/object-detection/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection_no_trainer.py
index 6de61be630920e..95389160f64b2c 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/object-detection/run_object_detection_no_trainer.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py
index 66847685e00d22..b276a17b483b4c 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/question-answering/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search.py b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search.py
index c411095887cb37..56a90b2aee6b8d 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/question-answering/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search_no_trainer.py
index f8e2f56f8e08b4..a7f1bb2765388e 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_beam_search_no_trainer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/question-answering/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_no_trainer.py
index f0a22e51637d28..b974d2d33d8297 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_qa_no_trainer.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/question-answering/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_seq2seq_qa.py b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_seq2seq_qa.py
index 40a55354484299..a17f2819b7979f 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_seq2seq_qa.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/question-answering/run_seq2seq_qa.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/question-answering/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation.py b/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation.py
index 16ae3d4bd0fab1..ff9cec8296f794 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=2.0.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation_no_trainer.py
index 35c3744ab5f3b3..1307d32892078f 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/semantic-segmentation/run_semantic_segmentation_no_trainer.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc.py b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc.py
index 60b5fb154da823..9eac69fd382a08 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.18.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc_adapter.py b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc_adapter.py
index 8546e18dd67bbd..1572cc6a22cc51 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc_adapter.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc_adapter.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.18.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
index d72f1773d48aa2..60c244a5d62643 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.18.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization.py b/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization.py
index 129fa880c6f6df..2cf6ae6ce83f92 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/summarization/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization_no_trainer.py
index 21da10700052ea..a2e121a7f89c18 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/summarization/run_summarization_no_trainer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/summarization/requirements.txt")
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_classification.py b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_classification.py
index 46fc1fa5d88397..2ece5cb263216c 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_classification.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_classification.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/text-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue.py b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue.py
index 8cc8004c278253..24c93b8f289fa9 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/text-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue_no_trainer.py
index da9193ab1cfaa2..2c525de0fbb588 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_glue_no_trainer.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_xnli.py b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_xnli.py
index e3a075bf9c7d49..44a11f65c9dcbe 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_xnli.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/text-classification/run_xnli.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/text-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
index f6b081b3001f4d..c84aa841fbf6e5 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/token-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner_no_trainer.py
index 77016e2a6cb822..d8a7d5d4f69ccb 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner_no_trainer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/token-classification/requirements.txt")
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
index d593bdadcc7cd7..4c71287d3c3f2d 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/translation/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation_no_trainer.py b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation_no_trainer.py
index 70ef92284db010..665190d16983e5 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation_no_trainer.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation_no_trainer.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/translation/requirements.txt")
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py b/examples/tensorflow/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
index d013ac71b45699..a554b990cbc828 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/contrastive-image-text/run_clip.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version(
     "datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/tensorflow/contrastive-image-text/requirements.txt"
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/image-classification/run_image_classification.py b/examples/tensorflow/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
index c9f7d31fce8f6c..4995b13952423a 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/image-classification/run_image_classification.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/image-classification/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/multiple-choice/run_swag.py b/examples/tensorflow/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
index 99829f49a5627e..41816a0f4a29c7 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/multiple-choice/run_swag.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/question-answering/run_qa.py b/examples/tensorflow/question-answering/run_qa.py
index 977985afc01b17..bbedd824ebd035 100755
--- a/examples/tensorflow/question-answering/run_qa.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/question-answering/run_qa.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/summarization/run_summarization.py b/examples/tensorflow/summarization/run_summarization.py
index 7acaa30a651731..8d8df1e75e5505 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/summarization/run_summarization.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/summarization/run_summarization.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 # region Checking dependencies
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/summarization/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/text-classification/run_glue.py b/examples/tensorflow/text-classification/run_glue.py
index 6fe01fbf30bb7e..f99022e623e149 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/text-classification/run_glue.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/text-classification/run_glue.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 task_to_keys = {
     "cola": ("sentence", None),
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/translation/run_translation.py b/examples/tensorflow/translation/run_translation.py
index 094b55fb380deb..6f63de39196880 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/translation/run_translation.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/translation/run_translation.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 # region Dependencies and constants
 # Will error if the minimal version of Transformers is not installed. Remove at your own risks.
-check_min_version("4.45.0.dev0")
+check_min_version("4.45.0")
 
 require_version("datasets>=1.8.0", "To fix: pip install -r examples/pytorch/summarization/requirements.txt")
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b563b11b622687..7b54f23bed004e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="transformers",
-    version="4.45.0.dev0",  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
+    version="4.45.0",  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
     author="The Hugging Face team (past and future) with the help of all our contributors (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/graphs/contributors)",
     author_email="transformers@huggingface.co",
     description="State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow",
diff --git a/src/transformers/__init__.py b/src/transformers/__init__.py
index 72b9c8c008b990..9973901ff5825c 100755
--- a/src/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # to defer the actual importing for when the objects are requested. This way `import transformers` provides the names
 # in the namespace without actually importing anything (and especially none of the backends).
 
-__version__ = "4.45.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "4.45.0"
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING