diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-4.5.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-4.5.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..790175d6e88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-4.5.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, buildLinux, ... } @ args:
+
+import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
+  version = "4.5";
+  modDirVersion = "4.5.0";
+  extraMeta.branch = "4.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "172i3arrc34mb7nxw31iqrmbwrdnp8dmrbf8p3b3f6z006sfy3d4";
+  };
+
+  kernelPatches = args.kernelPatches;
+
+  features.iwlwifi = true;
+  features.efiBootStub = true;
+  features.needsCifsUtils = true;
+  features.canDisableNetfilterConntrackHelpers = true;
+  features.netfilterRPFilter = true;
+} // (args.argsOverride or {}))
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f45905b63a4..2dda3229158 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10483,6 +10483,15 @@ let
       ];
   };
 
+  linux_4_5 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-4.5.nix {
+    kernelPatches = [ kernelPatches.bridge_stp_helper ]
+      ++ lib.optionals ((platform.kernelArch or null) == "mips")
+      [ kernelPatches.mips_fpureg_emu
+        kernelPatches.mips_fpu_sigill
+        kernelPatches.mips_ext3_n32
+      ];
+  };
+
   linux_testing = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix {
     kernelPatches = [ kernelPatches.bridge_stp_helper ]
       ++ lib.optionals ((platform.kernelArch or null) == "mips")
@@ -10709,7 +10718,7 @@ let
   linux = linuxPackages.kernel;
 
   # Update this when adding the newest kernel major version!
-  linuxPackages_latest = pkgs.linuxPackages_4_4;
+  linuxPackages_latest = pkgs.linuxPackages_4_5;
   linux_latest = linuxPackages_latest.kernel;
 
   # Build the kernel modules for the some of the kernels.
@@ -10723,6 +10732,7 @@ let
   linuxPackages_4_1 = recurseIntoAttrs (linuxPackagesFor pkgs.linux_4_1 linuxPackages_4_1);
   linuxPackages_4_3 = recurseIntoAttrs (linuxPackagesFor pkgs.linux_4_3 linuxPackages_4_3);
   linuxPackages_4_4 = recurseIntoAttrs (linuxPackagesFor pkgs.linux_4_4 linuxPackages_4_4);
+  linuxPackages_4_5 = recurseIntoAttrs (linuxPackagesFor pkgs.linux_4_5 linuxPackages_4_5);
   linuxPackages_testing = recurseIntoAttrs (linuxPackagesFor pkgs.linux_testing linuxPackages_testing);
   linuxPackages_custom = {version, src, configfile}:
                            let linuxPackages_self = (linuxPackagesFor (pkgs.linuxManualConfig {inherit version src configfile;