diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4088538..94a6fdd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -109,3 +109,4 @@ evince-3.0.0.tar.bz2
 /evince-43.alpha.tar.xz
 /evince-43.0.tar.xz
 /evince-43.1.tar.xz
+/evince-44.rc.tar.xz
diff --git a/evince-42-poppler-requirement-decrease.patch b/evince-42-poppler-requirement-decrease.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fd2eb3d..0000000
--- a/evince-42-poppler-requirement-decrease.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- evince-42.rc/meson.build
-+++ evince-42.rc/meson.build
-@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ elif get_option('dvi').auto()
- endif
- 
- # *** PDF ***
--poppler_req_version = '>= 22.02.0'
-+poppler_req_version = '>= 22.01.0'
- poppler_glib_dep = dependency('poppler-glib', version: poppler_req_version, required: get_option('pdf'))
- 
- libxml_req_version = '>= 2.5.0'
diff --git a/evince.spec b/evince.spec
index 5d6bfd6..022fe7c 100644
--- a/evince.spec
+++ b/evince.spec
@@ -3,20 +3,18 @@
 %global __requires_exclude ^(%%(find %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/evince/ -name '*.so' | xargs -n1 basename | sort -u | paste -s -d '|' -))
 
 %global libarchive_version 3.6.0
-%global poppler_version 22.01.0
+%global poppler_version 22.02.0
 
 %global tarball_version %%(echo %{version} | tr '~' '.')
 
 Name:           evince
-Version:        43.1
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        44~rc
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Document viewer
 
 License:        GPLv2+ and GPLv3+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT and Afmparse
 URL:            https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
-Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/43/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
-
-Patch0:         evince-42-poppler-requirement-decrease.patch
+Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/44/%{name}-%{tarball_version}.tar.xz
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  gettext-devel
@@ -281,6 +279,9 @@ desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/org.gnome.Evince-p
 %{_mandir}/man1/evince-previewer.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 08 2023 David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> - 44~rc-1
+- Update to 44.rc
+
 * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 43.1-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5c4f798..d9cfbad 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (evince-43.1.tar.xz) = c12d7b6e961a74c8e31b604f232483576289ba9e5a37faa766f4e5aaa95bdcbf37cf98c1d28de45ad1728452b0a2408fe4fe245dc76289a21e7664c96237d09f
+SHA512 (evince-44.rc.tar.xz) = a6e7efb79a9317604f1f5646af692693105d974b56dc23fe7248588215066b314bd464cbd454608610dd3514364e2a1c0ca4747b1e4804dc63746344857e1806