# Patches fro ITK 5.4.5
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [November 4, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656 "2025-11-04T16:46:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/1 "2025-11-04T16:46:38Z")
Hi folks,
The next patch (bugfix) release, ITK 5.4.5, is coming up.
Patches currently staged on the Git release-5.4 branch are:
```auto
Bradley Lowekamp (1):
BUG: Fix setting zero sized CompositeTransforms
Dženan Zukić (1):
DOC: Change version number in download.md from 5.4.3 to 5.4.4
Hans Johnson (8):
ENH: Backport AnatomicalOrientation to ITKv5
COMP: Remove wrapping for AnatomicalOrientation backport
COMP: Remove LEGACY off mode in backport
DOC: Backport documentation for use of AnatomicalOrientation
STYLE: Fix spelling ignore for named class (Resizeable)
ENH: Add minimum policy version specification for external FFTW builds
ENH: Specify `CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES` for external FFTW builds
COMP: Replace np.bool with np.bool_
Matt McCormick (6):
COMP: Avoid PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM
COMP: Exclude BigIO from AzurePipelinesLinux
DOC: ITK 5.4.4 release notes
COMP: Replace np.bool with np.bool_
DOC: Fix links to 5.4.4 release artifacts
COMP: igenerator.py %i usage in help string
Michael Cho (1):
ENH: Support building with system Eigen3 >= 5
```
Are there other patches that are missing? Patches should be critical bugfixes, improved support for compilers, and documentation fixes.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/2 "2025-11-05T16:35:55Z")
Let’s not forget to do search and replace `5.4.4` into `5.4.5` in `Documentation/docs` this time 😃
Maybe we should add this to release guide, maybe in [Increment the version number](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/main/Documentation/Maintenance/Release.md#increment-the-version-number) section.
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/3 "2025-11-05T17:50:20Z")
Yes, we’ll get the download page updated correctly this time :-). We already have a note about it in the release process documentation here: [ITK/Documentation/Maintenance/Release.md at main · InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK · GitHub](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/main/Documentation/Maintenance/Release.md#update-the-website)
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/4 "2025-11-10T20:18:21Z")
Matt,
What is the status of this beta? I’d like to back port the following to patch release:
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> Original report is:
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> Vulnerability VU#591834.1 (VU#591834)
> Date Added: 2025-08-2…1
> Description: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the Grassroots DICOM library (GDCM), specifically within the SequenceOfFragments::ReadValue method. The issue is triggered during parsing of a malformed DICOM file containing encapsulated PixelData fragments (compressed image data stored as multiple fragments).
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/5 "2025-11-15T20:34:51Z")
@blowekamp 👍 will be included in 5.4.5.
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/6 "2025-11-18T12:49:29Z")
What is the timeline for this tag and release?
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/patches-fro-itk-5-4-5/7656/7 "2025-11-18T14:22:19Z")
Tagging tomorrow (Wednesday), release finalized Monday.