diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7b2fc2c..3914c51 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.16.0.tar.xz
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.17.0.tar.xz
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.17.1.tar.xz
+/mate-settings-daemon-1.18.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/mate-settings-daemon.spec b/mate-settings-daemon.spec
index 7238727..bfc539d 100644
--- a/mate-settings-daemon.spec
+++ b/mate-settings-daemon.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.17
+%global branch 1.18
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit 83fe1f587f5c6328b10a899a880275d79bf88921}
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 %{!?rel_build:%global git_tar %{name}-%{version}-%{git_ver}.tar.xz}
 
 Name:           mate-settings-daemon
-Version:        %{branch}.1
+Version:        %{branch}.0
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 %else
 Release:        0.3%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 %endif
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ URL:            http://mate-desktop.org
 # Source for snapshot-builds.
 %{!?rel_build:Source0:    http://git.mate-desktop.org/%{name}/snapshot/%{name}-%{commit}.tar.xz#/%{git_tar}}
 
+# https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/commit/280c174
+Patch1:         mate-settings-daemon_0001-Make-pointer-locater-always-pass-through.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  dbus-glib-devel
 BuildRequires:  dconf-devel
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
@@ -66,6 +69,8 @@ under it.
 %prep
 %setup -q%{!?rel_build:n %{name}-%{commit}}
 
+%patch1 -p1 -b .0001
+
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
 #NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 %else # 0%{?rel_build}
@@ -141,6 +146,10 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 14 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.18.0-1
+- update to 1.18.0 release
+- add https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/commit/280c174
+
 * Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.17.1-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/mate-settings-daemon_0001-Make-pointer-locater-always-pass-through.patch b/mate-settings-daemon_0001-Make-pointer-locater-always-pass-through.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1930212
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mate-settings-daemon_0001-Make-pointer-locater-always-pass-through.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 280c1746b557369793e41f39e1d6b5edb1a1bf2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alexei Sorokin <sor.alexei@meowr.ru>
+Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:58:27 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Make pointer locater always pass through
+
+---
+ plugins/mouse/msd-locate-pointer.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/plugins/mouse/msd-locate-pointer.c b/plugins/mouse/msd-locate-pointer.c
+index e114fd0..4cddd97 100644
+--- a/plugins/mouse/msd-locate-pointer.c
++++ b/plugins/mouse/msd-locate-pointer.c
+@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ move_locate_pointer_window (MsdLocatePointerData *data,
+                                                   0);
+   cr = cairo_create (mask);
+ 
+-  cairo_set_source_rgb (cr, 0., 0., 0.);
++  cairo_set_source_rgba (cr, 0., 0., 0., 0.);
+   cairo_rectangle (cr, 0., 0., WINDOW_SIZE, WINDOW_SIZE);
+   cairo_fill (cr);
+ 
+-- 
+2.12.0
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 76ab798..b12a5d1 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mate-settings-daemon-1.17.1.tar.xz) = 6bfef87f629ca067796a06b906234ef1987adc74970bea1bc4cb15cbfc02221c07f82f7de3859845a626bd6002eab8a07e5e623aa12f69e20b8bd43b1f3fd01b
+SHA512 (mate-settings-daemon-1.18.0.tar.xz) = 156166039ee2bd108f4932ab27423e94dba9e7d0e27d814419d74a1d8ddddb18f452a3e43bc0522dc832a0fc415ceb481d4fe656367ff73f6d8b30ad27e42278