diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 632465b4a0..e556ad8ea9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 
+2.5-545 | 2018-05-01 18:09:30 -0500
+
+  * Improve canonicalization of build dir path in a coverage unit test
+    (Corelight)
+
 2.5-544 | 2018-05-01 17:57:15 -0500
 
   * Rewrite the DHCP analyzer and accompanying script-layer API.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 75a080b8dc..0575788c00 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.5-544
+2.5-545
diff --git a/testing/btest/coverage/init-default.test b/testing/btest/coverage/init-default.test
index c74c264eb8..537b5ca77d 100644
--- a/testing/btest/coverage/init-default.test
+++ b/testing/btest/coverage/init-default.test
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 #@TEST-EXEC: test -e $DIST/scripts/base/init-default.bro
 #@TEST-EXEC: ( cd $DIST/scripts/base && find . -name '*.bro' ) | sort >"all scripts found"
 #@TEST-EXEC: bro misc/loaded-scripts
-#@TEST-EXEC: cat loaded_scripts.log | egrep -v "/$(test -L $BUILD && basename $(readlink $BUILD) || basename $BUILD)/scripts/|/loaded-scripts.bro|#" | sed 's#/./#/#g'  >loaded_scripts.log.tmp
+#@TEST-EXEC: (test -L $BUILD && basename $(readlink $BUILD) || basename $BUILD) >buildprefix
+#@TEST-EXEC: cat loaded_scripts.log | egrep -v "/build/scripts/|$(cat buildprefix)/scripts/|/loaded-scripts.bro|#" | sed 's#/./#/#g'  >loaded_scripts.log.tmp
 #@TEST-EXEC: cat loaded_scripts.log.tmp | sed 's/ //g' | sed -e ':a' -e '$!N' -e 's/^\(.*\).*\n\1.*/\1/' -e 'ta' >prefix
 #@TEST-EXEC: cat loaded_scripts.log.tmp | sed 's/ //g' | sed "s#`cat prefix`#./#g" | sort >init-default.bro
 #@TEST-EXEC: diff -u "all scripts found" init-default.bro | egrep "^-[^-]" > missing_loads