diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6240125..13ca70c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@
 /kxmlrpcclient-5.41.0.tar.xz
 /kxmlrpcclient-5.42.0.tar.xz
 /kxmlrpcclient-5.43.0.tar.xz
+/kxmlrpcclient-5.44.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/kf5-kxmlrpcclient.spec b/kf5-kxmlrpcclient.spec
index ea95fee..b657663 100644
--- a/kf5-kxmlrpcclient.spec
+++ b/kf5-kxmlrpcclient.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global framework kxmlrpcclient
 
 Name:           kf5-%{framework}
-Version: 5.43.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 5.44.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary:        KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3 library for interaction with XML RPC services
 
 License:        LGPLv2+ and BSD
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ make install/fast DESTDIR=%{buildroot} -C %{_target_platform}
 
 
 %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 5eb5d3d..18001cc 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (kxmlrpcclient-5.43.0.tar.xz) = 82940cd57ab846009b3bb2f50ff8502679a24212df6d4c8f7499874070dbf43858564f29ea09b278d766ee4a13ce5b92b0d847e5ecb8aacb00194a31393bba3f
+SHA512 (kxmlrpcclient-5.44.0.tar.xz) = 288ab20ec3465e82b52792e572c03b8d0eda0a1e1e275850065a113906a41f835ed7d33ced43d6069bfef9ef479ee91deaffa5fadfebbeb0d1eb6dd3c57968e5