diff --git a/inkscape-appdata.patch b/inkscape-appdata.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1b0b8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inkscape-appdata.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--- inkscape-master/org.inkscape.Inkscape.appdata.xml.in.orig	2019-08-26 13:18:13.000000000 +0200
++++ inkscape-master/org.inkscape.Inkscape.appdata.xml.in	2019-09-09 15:59:48.404305790 +0200
+@@ -51,16 +51,6 @@
+         </ul>
+       </description>
+     </release>
+-    <release version="1.0-alpha2" date="2019-06-02">
+-      <description>
+-        <p>This is the second public alpha release of Inkscape 1.0! This package is intended to test against regressions, try new features, and get a taste of the future of Inkscape!</p>
+-      </description>
+-  </release>
+-    <release version="1.0-alpha" date="2019-01-04">
+-      <description>
+-        <p>This is the first public alpha release of Inkscape 1.0! This package is intended to test against regressions, try new features, and get a taste of the future of Inkscape!</p>
+-      </description>
+-  </release>
+     <release version="0.92.3" date="2018-03-23">
+       <description>
+         <ul>
diff --git a/inkscape.spec b/inkscape.spec
index c370125..c6821aa 100644
--- a/inkscape.spec
+++ b/inkscape.spec
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Source0:        inkscape-master.tar.gz
 # Fedora Color Palette, GIMP format, CC-BY 3.0
 Source2:	Fedora-Color-Palette.gpl
 
+# Make appdata validation pass
+Patch0:         inkscape-appdata.patch
+
 Provides: bundled(libcroco)
 Provides: bundled(libgdl)
 
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@ graphics in W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
 
 
 %prep
-%setup -qn inkscape-master
+%autosetup -n inkscape-master -p1
 pathfix.py -pni "%{__python3} %{py3_shbang_opts}" .
 find . -name CMakeLists.txt | xargs sed -i 's|COMMAND python |COMMAND %{__python3} |g'