diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d6ef29..046937f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /baloo-5.43.0.tar.xz
+/baloo-5.44.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/kf5-baloo.spec b/kf5-baloo.spec
index e47628a..f3e6cd7 100644
--- a/kf5-baloo.spec
+++ b/kf5-baloo.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Name:    kf5-%{framework}
 Summary: A Tier 3 KDE Frameworks 5 module that provides indexing and search functionality
-Version: 5.43.0
+Version: 5.44.0
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 # libs are LGPL, tools are GPL
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 03 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.44.0-1
+- 5.44.0
+
 * Wed Feb 07 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.43.0-1
 - 5.43.0
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d76ba8f..df46eeb 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (baloo-5.43.0.tar.xz) = 918d615adc07ee71414eabe15cd18f3cfee264c206cbef32f6807cff2eac701a58ae7eebb087e618e9bc7741ad8409514af8361e216ff68b07b65dd0da0a802a
+SHA512 (baloo-5.44.0.tar.xz) = 50bf540b74e092f035cade507c6964bd9f5a3f409a0a1eb6c81b78866c7cbadf5a7b4301a78acd3d9ce86144d75c87cc10ac3551956bfb460dfa45fcd2e2181d