diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0c2fd8b..5f03c32 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 fio-1.41.5.tar.bz2
 /fio-1.43.2.tar.bz2
+/fio-1.44.tar.bz2
diff --git a/fio.spec b/fio.spec
index 8cb1608..8fe7e59 100644
--- a/fio.spec
+++ b/fio.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:		fio
-Version:	1.43.2
+Version:	1.44
 Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Multithreaded IO generation tool
 
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct 22 2010 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 1.44-1
+- New upstream version
+
 * Thu Sep 23 2010 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 1.43.2-1
 - New upstream version
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a0a19b6..76c2882 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8df0fe326bdee50b79563183f924acef  fio-1.43.2.tar.bz2
+8e100ab93c12a728b5df995d7206c21d  fio-1.44.tar.bz2