diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index d73c5fe..69e3f4a 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-biopython-1.43.tar.gz
+biopython-1.44.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-biopython.spec b/python-biopython.spec
index 935383f..0429531 100644
--- a/python-biopython.spec
+++ b/python-biopython.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 %{!?python_sitearch: %define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
 
 Name:             python-biopython
-Version:          1.43
-Release:          5%{?dist}
+Version:          1.44
+Release:          1%{?dist}
 Summary:          Python tools for computational molecular biology
 Source0:          http://biopython.org/DIST/biopython-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:           biopython-setup_test.patch
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{python_sitearch}/BioSQL/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 28 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexl@users.sourceforge.net> 1.44-1
+- Update to latest upstream (1.44).
+
 * Mon Aug 27 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexl@users.sourceforge.net> 1.43-5
 - Used "MIT" as short license name as the "Biopython License
   Agreement" is the same as the CMU MIT variant.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d378292..9b0c241 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3c275b321bb1db7d8bda764913aaedcd  biopython-1.43.tar.gz
+762c7a358af9dc58b712b8b4bb99d0c2  biopython-1.44.tar.gz