diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 6dea3dd17..3e6e367d1 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ Release History
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+v20.0.1 (2020-02-10)
+--------------------
+
+Features - 20.0.1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- upgrade embedded setuptools to ``45.2.0`` from ``45.1.0`` for Python ``3.4+`` - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`#1552 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1554>`_)
+
+Bugfixes - 20.0.1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Virtual environments created via relative path on Windows creates bad console executables - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`#1552 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1552>`_)
+- Seems sometimes venvs created set their base executable to themselves; we accept these without question, so we handle
+  virtual environments as system pythons causing issues - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`#1553 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1553>`_)
+
+
 v20.0.0. (2020-02-10)
 ---------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog/1552.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/1552.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index a57f2a757..000000000
--- a/docs/changelog/1552.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Virtual environments created via relative path on Windows creates bad console executables - by :user:`gaborbernat`.
diff --git a/docs/changelog/1553.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/1553.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2084dc977..000000000
--- a/docs/changelog/1553.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Seems sometimes venvs created set their base executable to themselves; we accept these without question, so we handle
-virtual environments as system pythons causing issues - by :user:`gaborbernat`.
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/__init__.py b/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/__init__.py
index 0a4745e73..b008a0652 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/__init__.py
+++ b/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/__init__.py
@@ -3,27 +3,27 @@
 BUNDLE_SUPPORT = {
     "3.9": {
         "pip": "pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.8": {
         "pip": "pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.7": {
         "pip": "pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.6": {
         "pip": "pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.5": {
         "pip": "pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.4": {
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl b/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl
similarity index 78%
rename from src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
rename to src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl
index f8895e3c6..10ff63fe6 100644
Binary files a/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.1.0-py3-none-any.whl and b/src/virtualenv/seed/embed/wheels/setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl differ