diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0cf974a..92567dc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -71,3 +71,4 @@
 /gnome-clocks-43.alpha.tar.xz
 /gnome-clocks-43.beta.tar.xz
 /gnome-clocks-43.0.tar.xz
+/gnome-clocks-44.rc.tar.xz
diff --git a/gnome-clocks.spec b/gnome-clocks.spec
index 0efc149..807700d 100644
--- a/gnome-clocks.spec
+++ b/gnome-clocks.spec
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
 %global tarball_version %%(echo %{version} | tr '~' '.')
 
 Name:           gnome-clocks
-Version:        43.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        44~rc
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Clock application designed for GNOME 3
 
-License:        GPLv2+
+License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 URL:            https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks
-Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-clocks/43/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
+Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-clocks/44/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
 
 BuildRequires:  meson
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ BuildRequires:  gettext
 BuildRequires:  itstool
 BuildRequires:  libappstream-glib
 # Required for gnome-desktop-4 VAPI.
-BuildRequires:  vala >= 0.55
+BuildRequires:  vala >= 0.56.4
 
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(geocode-glib-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/org.gnome.clocks.d
 %{_datadir}/metainfo/org.gnome.clocks.metainfo.xml
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Mar 10 2023 David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> - 44~rc-1
+- Update to 44.rc
+
 * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 43.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0d499dd..205952e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gnome-clocks-43.0.tar.xz) = 703876a67000fa3a2b5e7bec70451a725aa4ed33aa2392a4c7fafc6ad287dd5591ee24c9aed20961739e9caa1f15ec404da9a2fa42e524dedaf75210d00b4fcf
+SHA512 (gnome-clocks-44.rc.tar.xz) = 982bf5a784989369e6593904e0bae9a0e896b74ea34426833a9d70ea6fc8906558c130f766fcfabac8b3f880a0f2ab469a97532be0220f8843731cb787943035