diff --git a/git-test-apache-davlockdbtype-config.patch b/git-test-apache-davlockdbtype-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..882006a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-test-apache-davlockdbtype-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -ur b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
+--- b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf	2024-01-09 11:06:46.660868023 +0100
++++ a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf	2024-01-09 11:09:09.572713625 +0100
+@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@
+ <IfDefine DAV>
+ 	LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
+ 	LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
+-
++	<IfDirective DavLockDBType>
++   		DavLockDBType sdbm
++	</IfDirective>
+ 	DAVLockDB DAVLock
+ 	<Location /dumb/>
+ 		Dav on
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 75c41fd..a839b8d 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 %global _package_note_file  %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{real_version}/.package_note-%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{_arch}.ld
 
 Name:           git
-Version:        2.41.0
+Version:        2.45.0
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Fast Version Control System
 License:        BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT
@@ -127,9 +127,13 @@ Patch2:         0002-t-lib-git-daemon-try-harder-to-find-a-port.patch
 # https://github.com/tmzullinger/git/commit/aa5105dc11
 Patch3:         0003-t-lib-git-svn-try-harder-to-find-a-port.patch
 
+# Configurates Apache test server to use `DavLockDBType sdbm`
+# Prevents t5540 failures on i686, s390x and ppc64le
+Patch5:         git-test-apache-davlockdbtype-config.patch
+
 %if %{with docs}
 # pod2man is needed to build Git.3pm
-BuildRequires:  /usr/bin/pod2man
+BuildRequires:  perl-podlators
 %if %{with asciidoctor}
 BuildRequires:  docbook5-style-xsl
 BuildRequires:  rubygem-asciidoctor
@@ -192,9 +196,11 @@ BuildRequires:  zlib-devel >= 1.2
 %if %{with tests}
 # Test suite requirements
 BuildRequires:  acl
-%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
-# Needed by t5540-http-push-webdav.sh
+%if (0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 40) || (0%{?rhel} >= 8 && 0%{?rhel} < 10)
+# Needed by t5540-http-push-webdav.sh; recent httpd obviates this
 BuildRequires: apr-util-bdb
+%endif
+%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
 # Needed by t5559-http-fetch-smart-http2.sh
 BuildRequires: mod_http2
 %endif
@@ -633,13 +639,6 @@ rm -rf contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py
 %endif
 # endif with python2
 
-# Use python3 to avoid an unnecessary python2 dependency, if possible.
-%if %{with python3}
-sed -i -e '1s@#!\( */usr/bin/env python\|%{__python2}\)$@#!%{__python3}@' \
-    contrib/hg-to-git/hg-to-git.py
-%endif
-# endif with python3
-
 %install
 %make_install %{?with_docs:install-doc}
 
@@ -1039,6 +1038,30 @@ rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$testdir"
 %{?with_docs:%{_pkgdocdir}/git-svn.html}
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 30 2024 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.45.0-1
+- update to 2.45.0
+
+* Mon Feb 26 2024 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.44.0-1
+- update to 2.44.0
+
+* Thu Feb 15 2024 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.43.2-1
+- update to 2.43.2
+
+* Mon Feb 12 2024 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.43.1-1
+- update to 2.43.1
+
+* Tue Nov 21 2023 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.43.0-1
+- update to 2.43.0
+
+* Tue Nov 14 2023 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.42.1-1
+- update to 2.42.1
+
+* Wed Nov  1 2023 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 2.42.0-2
+- remove explicit BR for apr-util-bdb (#2247532)
+
+* Tue Oct 03 2023 Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel@redhat.com> - 2.42.0-1
+- update to 2.42.0
+
 * Thu Jun 01 2023 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> - 2.41.0-1
 - update to 2.41.0
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d13f7c2..0967862 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA512 (git-2.41.0.tar.xz) = a215bc6d89afbddd56adac901c24ea2b7f98a37bf6a6a2756893947012ffaa850e76247a3445a5ab13ab5a462f39986fec33eed086148aba5eb554dc1799fee0
-SHA512 (git-2.41.0.tar.sign) = 140f088254997e05bb444ed25f18ae9cadec9c24081acfc66670f153cbeecd2cdb722b07b5678da95c578dd29ad81dcf683264a503b37d63400f0746bbfa8762
+SHA512 (git-2.45.0.tar.xz) = 36d438bf9a57dee8fe0536c90cb25d53c552e9f80e7575447d1d2af30cadab08522356f4ecd0f69b7877d5a7f84ab3b9766d8386beae57fe8d411d05d70db214
+SHA512 (git-2.45.0.tar.sign) = 8d4fdcb88355bf7511c8822e367e692514298deb99a2734b71b2754a551c76ab3aa788d5f24475c3177dafca6ce05325535c7d354c3aa82d3322bb718ccbaec4