diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 2b6bc65c52..7bfe725d47 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.54.3"
+  ".": "1.54.4"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4addfb1025..d82ac42553 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.54.4 (2024-11-12)
+
+Full Changelog: [v1.54.3...v1.54.4](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/compare/v1.54.3...v1.54.4)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* don't use dicts as iterables in transform ([#1865](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/1865)) ([76a51b1](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/76a51b11efae50659a562197b1e18c6343964b56))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* bump models in example snippets to gpt-4o ([#1861](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/1861)) ([adafe08](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/adafe0859178d406fa93b38f3547f3d262651331))
+* move comments in example snippets ([#1860](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/1860)) ([362cf74](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/362cf74d6c34506f98f6c4fb2304357be21f7691))
+* **readme:** add missing asyncio import ([#1858](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/1858)) ([dec9d0c](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/dec9d0c97b702b6bcf9c71f5bdd6172bb5718354))
+
 ## 1.54.3 (2024-11-06)
 
 Full Changelog: [v1.54.2...v1.54.3](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/compare/v1.54.2...v1.54.3)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc334e7e07..f1cd97b96e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ import os
 from openai import OpenAI
 
 client = OpenAI(
-    # This is the default and can be omitted
-    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
+    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
 )
 
 chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
             "content": "Say this is a test",
         }
     ],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    model="gpt-4o",
 )
 ```
 
@@ -153,8 +152,7 @@ import asyncio
 from openai import AsyncOpenAI
 
 client = AsyncOpenAI(
-    # This is the default and can be omitted
-    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
+    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
 )
 
 
@@ -166,7 +164,7 @@ async def main() -> None:
                 "content": "Say this is a test",
             }
         ],
-        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+        model="gpt-4o",
     )
 
 
@@ -185,8 +183,13 @@ from openai import OpenAI
 client = OpenAI()
 
 stream = client.chat.completions.create(
-    model="gpt-4",
-    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Say this is a test"}],
+    messages=[
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": "Say this is a test",
+        }
+    ],
+    model="gpt-4o",
     stream=True,
 )
 for chunk in stream:
@@ -196,6 +199,7 @@ for chunk in stream:
 The async client uses the exact same interface.
 
 ```python
+import asyncio
 from openai import AsyncOpenAI
 
 client = AsyncOpenAI()
@@ -232,7 +236,7 @@ openai.base_url = "https://..."
 openai.default_headers = {"x-foo": "true"}
 
 completion = openai.chat.completions.create(
-    model="gpt-4",
+    model="gpt-4o",
     messages=[
         {
             "role": "user",
@@ -350,7 +354,7 @@ completion = client.chat.completions.create(
             "content": "Can you generate an example json object describing a fruit?",
         }
     ],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo-1106",
+    model="gpt-4o",
     response_format={"type": "json_object"},
 )
 ```
@@ -390,7 +394,7 @@ client = OpenAI()
 
 try:
     client.fine_tuning.jobs.create(
-        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+        model="gpt-4o",
         training_file="file-abc123",
     )
 except openai.APIConnectionError as e:
@@ -457,10 +461,10 @@ client.with_options(max_retries=5).chat.completions.create(
     messages=[
         {
             "role": "user",
-            "content": "How can I get the name of the current day in Node.js?",
+            "content": "How can I get the name of the current day in JavaScript?",
         }
     ],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    model="gpt-4o",
 )
 ```
 
@@ -491,7 +495,7 @@ client.with_options(timeout=5.0).chat.completions.create(
             "content": "How can I list all files in a directory using Python?",
         }
     ],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    model="gpt-4o",
 )
 ```
 
@@ -536,7 +540,7 @@ response = client.chat.completions.with_raw_response.create(
         "role": "user",
         "content": "Say this is a test",
     }],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    model="gpt-4o",
 )
 print(response.headers.get('X-My-Header'))
 
@@ -569,7 +573,7 @@ with client.chat.completions.with_streaming_response.create(
             "content": "Say this is a test",
         }
     ],
-    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    model="gpt-4o",
 ) as response:
     print(response.headers.get("X-My-Header"))
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 386f85e491..e0a20e8387 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "openai"
-version = "1.54.3"
+version = "1.54.4"
 description = "The official Python library for the openai API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/openai/_utils/_transform.py b/src/openai/_utils/_transform.py
index d7c05345d1..a6b62cad0c 100644
--- a/src/openai/_utils/_transform.py
+++ b/src/openai/_utils/_transform.py
@@ -316,6 +316,11 @@ async def _async_transform_recursive(
         # Iterable[T]
         or (is_iterable_type(stripped_type) and is_iterable(data) and not isinstance(data, str))
     ):
+        # dicts are technically iterable, but it is an iterable on the keys of the dict and is not usually
+        # intended as an iterable, so we don't transform it.
+        if isinstance(data, dict):
+            return cast(object, data)
+
         inner_type = extract_type_arg(stripped_type, 0)
         return [await _async_transform_recursive(d, annotation=annotation, inner_type=inner_type) for d in data]
 
diff --git a/src/openai/_version.py b/src/openai/_version.py
index 848cd40935..5e531dd083 100644
--- a/src/openai/_version.py
+++ b/src/openai/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "openai"
-__version__ = "1.54.3"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "1.54.4"  # x-release-please-version
diff --git a/tests/test_client.py b/tests/test_client.py
index 912ea1316c..7ea2ab38d1 100644
--- a/tests/test_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_client.py
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ def test_retrying_timeout_errors_doesnt_leak(self, respx_mock: MockRouter) -> No
                                 "content": "Say this is a test",
                             }
                         ],
-                        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                        model="gpt-4o",
                     ),
                 ),
                 cast_to=httpx.Response,
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ def test_retrying_status_errors_doesnt_leak(self, respx_mock: MockRouter) -> Non
                                 "content": "Say this is a test",
                             }
                         ],
-                        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                        model="gpt-4o",
                     ),
                 ),
                 cast_to=httpx.Response,
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ async def test_retrying_timeout_errors_doesnt_leak(self, respx_mock: MockRouter)
                                 "content": "Say this is a test",
                             }
                         ],
-                        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                        model="gpt-4o",
                     ),
                 ),
                 cast_to=httpx.Response,
@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ async def test_retrying_status_errors_doesnt_leak(self, respx_mock: MockRouter)
                                 "content": "Say this is a test",
                             }
                         ],
-                        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                        model="gpt-4o",
                     ),
                 ),
                 cast_to=httpx.Response,