diff --git a/SPECS/openvswitch2.17.spec b/SPECS/openvswitch2.17.spec
index 9461bff..da25093 100644
--- a/SPECS/openvswitch2.17.spec
+++ b/SPECS/openvswitch2.17.spec
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Summary: Open vSwitch
 Group: System Environment/Daemons daemon/database/utilities
 URL: http://www.openvswitch.org/
 Version: 2.17.0
-Release: 44%{?dist}
+Release: 45%{?dist}
 
 # Nearly all of openvswitch is ASL 2.0.  The bugtool is LGPLv2+, and the
 # lib/sflow*.[ch] files are SISSL
@@ -748,6 +748,11 @@ exit 0
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 04 2022 Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com> - 2.17.0-45
+- redhat: get the NVR from spec file directly [RH git: f3b0501deb]
+    Fixes: 339efe77c4c7 ("pkgtool: keep %{?dist} before added bz string")
+
+
 * Wed Sep 21 2022 Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com> - 2.17.0-44
 - vhost: fix virtqueue use after free on NUMA reallocation [RH git: 68652b2a12]
     [ upstream commit 0b2a2ca35037d6a5168f0832c11d9858b8ae946a ]