diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dbcbe75..0313436 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@
 /kinit-5.41.0.tar.xz
 /kinit-5.42.0.tar.xz
 /kinit-5.43.0.tar.xz
+/kinit-5.44.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/kf5-kinit.spec b/kf5-kinit.spec
index c21ee17..ee19dbb 100644
--- a/kf5-kinit.spec
+++ b/kf5-kinit.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 %global rpm_macros_dir %(d=%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d; [ -d $d ] || d=%{_sysconfdir}/rpm; echo $d)
 
 Name:           kf5-%{framework}
-Version: 5.43.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 5.44.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary:        KDE Frameworks 5 tier 3 solution for process launching
 
 License:        LGPLv2+ and BSD
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ install -p -m644 -D %{SOURCE10} \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 03 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.44.0-1
+- 5.44.0
+
 * Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 5.43.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 500313e..b3e8623 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (kinit-5.43.0.tar.xz) = 1326c6a3d67d5ff9e483f05506c4c21486377c793fb6e6e8f6657d60f28b69bc03bd45619783a76464971b81997b1f546f18043f133f048c4836c023f2ba54f7
+SHA512 (kinit-5.44.0.tar.xz) = 64d4709faafce326d56e907cbd79673f3947a4ef7e52c520d6d26bf0c8232e8b5826619a1bc04639d1a0f0a9a06b2da48f8867c2b66e593b11f526677a308857