diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 279ec57a..bda8f1ec 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "RegistryCI"
 uuid = "0c95cc5f-2f7e-43fe-82dd-79dbcba86b32"
 authors = ["Dilum Aluthge <dilum@aluthge.com>", "Fredrik Ekre <ekrefredrik@gmail.com>"]
-version = "4.5.0"
+version = "4.5.1"
 
 [deps]
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ VisualStringDistances = "089bb0c6-1854-47b9-96f7-327dbbe09dca"
 
 [compat]
 GitHub = "5.2"
-HTTP = "0.8, 0.9"
+HTTP = "0.8, 0.9.1"
 JSON = "0.19, 0.20, 0.21"
 RegistryTools = "1.2"
 StringDistances = "0.9, 0.10"
diff --git a/src/TagBot/TagBot.jl b/src/TagBot/TagBot.jl
index 284376d6..676baa23 100644
--- a/src/TagBot/TagBot.jl
+++ b/src/TagBot/TagBot.jl
@@ -84,10 +84,16 @@ function get_repo_notification_issue(repo)
     filter!(x -> x.pull_request === nothing, issues)
     return if isempty(issues)
         @info "Creating new notification issue"
-        issue = GH.create_issue(repo; auth=AUTH[], params=(;
-            title=ISSUE_TITLE,
-            body=ISSUE_BODY,
-        ))
+        issue = try
+            GH.create_issue(repo; auth=AUTH[], params=(;
+                title=ISSUE_TITLE,
+                body=ISSUE_BODY,
+            ))
+        catch e
+            occursin("Issues are disabled", e.msg) || rethrow()
+            @info "Issues are disabled on $repo"
+            return nothing
+        end
         GH.edit_issue(repo, issue; auth=AUTH[], params=(; state="closed"))
         issue
     else
@@ -131,6 +137,10 @@ function maybe_notify(event, repo, version; cron=false)
         return
     end
     issue = get_repo_notification_issue(repo)
+    if issue === nothing
+        @info "Couldn't get notification issue for $repo"
+        return
+    end
     if cron && should_fixup(repo, issue)
         @info "Opening fixup PR for $repo"
         open_fixup_pr(repo)
diff --git a/test/tagbot-unit.jl b/test/tagbot-unit.jl
index a6f44cf2..69bfdb75 100644
--- a/test/tagbot-unit.jl
+++ b/test/tagbot-unit.jl
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ end
 
 @testset "get_repo_notification_issue" begin
     playback("get_repo_notification_issue.bson") do
-        @test_logs (:info, "Creating new notification issue") begin
+        @test_logs match_mode=:any (:info, "Creating new notification issue") begin
             issue = TB.get_repo_notification_issue("christopher-dG/TestRepo")
             @test issue.number == 11
         end
-        @test_logs (:info, "Found existing notification issue") begin
+        @test_logs match_mode=:any (:info, "Found existing notification issue") begin
             issue = TB.get_repo_notification_issue("christopher-dG/TestRepo")
             @test issue.number == 11
         end