update to latest upstream release & removed obsolete patch file
This week's release has a handful of small but important bugfixes, as well
as some good speedups.
This should be the last pre-1.0 release (just like the previous two
releases also should've been. ;)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=373193,372616,372241,371720,37
1453,370930,370195,363166,355805