diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 32932dd..92c51eb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /gnome-text-editor-43.alpha1.tar.xz
 /gnome-text-editor-43.0.tar.xz
 /gnome-text-editor-43.1.tar.xz
+/gnome-text-editor-44.alpha.tar.xz
diff --git a/0001-Merge-branch-appdata-releases-into-main.patch b/0001-Merge-branch-appdata-releases-into-main.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9067a7d..0000000
--- a/0001-Merge-branch-appdata-releases-into-main.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-From 2ce2a40ff54af0af7631ace059504be4dd17f3bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christian Hergert <christian@hergert.me>
-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 16:50:04 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] Merge branch 'appdata-releases' into 'main'
-
-appdata: Add missing releases
-
-See merge request GNOME/gnome-text-editor!81
-
-(cherry picked from commit 16b04a769a8ac4ee3573601f847cdc8d8597e3fd)
-
-19dd61a5 appdata: Add missing releases
----
- data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in | 3 +++
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in b/data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in
-index 596189b..5f9a7d3 100644
---- a/data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in
-+++ b/data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in
-@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
-   <translation type="gettext">org.gnome.TextEditor</translation>
- 
-   <releases>
-+    <release version="43.1" date="2022-10-04"/>
-+    <release version="43.0" date="2022-09-17"/>
-+    <release version="42.2" date="2022-06-12"/>
-     <release version="42.1" date="2022-04-21"/>
-     <release version="42.0" date="2022-03-18"/>
-   </releases>
--- 
-2.37.3
-
diff --git a/gnome-text-editor.spec b/gnome-text-editor.spec
index 6c2dabf..a4fe9ea 100644
--- a/gnome-text-editor.spec
+++ b/gnome-text-editor.spec
@@ -6,16 +6,13 @@
 %global tarball_version %%(echo %{version} | tr '~' '.')
 
 Name:		gnome-text-editor
-Version:	43.1
-Release:	4%{?dist}
+Version:	44~alpha
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	A simple text editor for the GNOME desktop
 
 License:	GPLv3+
 URL:		https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor
-Source0:	https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/43/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
-
-# Backported from upstream
-Patch0:		0001-Merge-branch-appdata-releases-into-main.patch
+Source0:	https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/44/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
 
 BuildRequires:	pkgconfig(editorconfig)
 BuildRequires:	pkgconfig(enchant-2) >= %{enchant_version}
@@ -77,6 +74,9 @@ desktop-file-validate %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/org.gnome.TextEditor.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 06 2023 David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> - 44~alpha-1
+- Update to 44.alpha
+
 * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 43.1-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0a4c4f3..1badcdd 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gnome-text-editor-43.1.tar.xz) = aab2fcf5d0ad705833802bec3ccacce175c16dc717b521e0b220ddf5420760ec76a90db9b4f4ee0722c2b19a40304e1c379f06f2983e4597df233ade67a0f725
+SHA512 (gnome-text-editor-44.alpha.tar.xz) = eff7e9d0d4a692a405f100f2e966d9b4810edf66fb15328439bdc296d7a2a567d4da9f40f67ea8f382bda9735f36e03be18efad7b515162fe26f2f7e53911bd9