diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0a30440..72312d7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 /plasma-framework-5.41.0.tar.xz
 /plasma-framework-5.42.0.tar.xz
 /plasma-framework-5.43.0.tar.xz
+/plasma-framework-5.44.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/kf5-plasma.spec b/kf5-plasma.spec
index 4995a7f..8010198 100644
--- a/kf5-plasma.spec
+++ b/kf5-plasma.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global framework plasma
 
 Name:    kf5-%{framework}
-Version: 5.43.0
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 5.44.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3 framework is foundation to build a primary user interface
 
 License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and BSD
@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ sed -e "s|@@VERSION@@|%{version}|g" fedora-plasma-cache.sh.in > \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 03 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.44.0-1
+- 5.44.0
+
 * Thu Feb 08 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.43.0-3
 - use %%ldconfig_scriptlets, drop %%find_lang ... --with-qt
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b971a21..828042d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (plasma-framework-5.43.0.tar.xz) = e86d8ba66edd21712bdaba0d2e86c3a2618b8925115022d3f614d5d0bcc7b9f9c1b33a4d09ca090555c508d316ba7341d85d3f515698982e014d1e5c3d1c7fcc
+SHA512 (plasma-framework-5.44.0.tar.xz) = 0fbe53f7f83c8888e8148fd0534f816070aa895ec87de6df19454796485d446171df36e30814598eaae3d95e27e11cf7196ed916fad87be237750242e008185c