diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 866a271..d76d06c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@
 /gnome-characters-42.rc.tar.xz
 /gnome-characters-42.0.tar.xz
 /gnome-characters-43.alpha.tar.xz
+/gnome-characters-43.beta.tar.xz
diff --git a/gnome-characters.spec b/gnome-characters.spec
index cbe5466..f3a6517 100644
--- a/gnome-characters.spec
+++ b/gnome-characters.spec
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 %global tarball_version %%(echo %{version} | tr '~' '.')
 
 Name:		gnome-characters
-Version:	43~alpha
-Release:	2%{?dist}
+Version:	43~beta
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Character map application for GNOME
 # Files from gtk-js-app are licensed under 3-clause BSD.
 # Other files are GPL 2.0 or later.
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/applications/%{appname}.deskto
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 08 2022 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 43~beta-1
+- Update to 43.beta
+
 * Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 43~alpha-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6f541d4..5defc0a 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gnome-characters-43.alpha.tar.xz) = e0f8c466e7d127ad2f95ee3d96d6c84b56ce6526a6b637a62b2c36c044ba8b89f34d14cd74360b82295ddccdc554b1e198fa5b5037b9677f7550ebf50d490a1a
+SHA512 (gnome-characters-43.beta.tar.xz) = f4ac648d793eb6056b0938447298a64e51bf8f9c9baa8c0cf15464d998ecf1688c09de8b5d877ca4447484bc6a8f92fe0d35f88b64542170d7e65eb77cab2501