diff --git a/package/binutils-bare-metal/2.44 b/package/binutils-bare-metal/2.44
deleted file mode 120000
index b8164295cf..0000000000
--- a/package/binutils-bare-metal/2.44
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../binutils/2.44
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash b/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash
deleted file mode 120000
index e0655d3af3..0000000000
--- a/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../binutils/binutils.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash b/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cf24141f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# From https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/binutils/releases/sha512.sum
+sha512  c7b10a7466d9fd398d7a0b3f2a43318432668d714f2ec70069a31bdc93c86d28e0fe83792195727167743707fbae45337c0873a0786416db53bbf22860c16ce7  binutils-2.45.tar.xz
+
+# locally computed
+sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING3
+sha256  56bdea73b6145ef6ac5259b3da390b981d840c24cb03b8e1cbc678de7ecfa18d  COPYING.LIB
diff --git a/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.mk b/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.mk
index bb04b79c2f..f7ee96ef97 100644
--- a/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.mk
+++ b/package/binutils-bare-metal/binutils-bare-metal.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BINUTILS_BARE_METAL_VERSION = 2.44
+BINUTILS_BARE_METAL_VERSION = 2.45
 BINUTILS_BARE_METAL_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/binutils
 BINUTILS_BARE_METAL_SOURCE = binutils-$(BINUTILS_BARE_METAL_VERSION).tar.xz