diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3914c51..9a807d5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.17.0.tar.xz
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.17.1.tar.xz
 /mate-settings-daemon-1.18.0.tar.xz
+/mate-settings-daemon-1.18.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/mate-settings-daemon.spec b/mate-settings-daemon.spec
index bfc539d..aef279f 100644
--- a/mate-settings-daemon.spec
+++ b/mate-settings-daemon.spec
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 %{!?rel_build:%global git_tar %{name}-%{version}-%{git_ver}.tar.xz}
 
 Name:           mate-settings-daemon
-Version:        %{branch}.0
+Version:        %{branch}.1
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 %else
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ 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
@@ -69,8 +66,6 @@ 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}
@@ -146,6 +141,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 05 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.18.1-1
+- update to 1.18.1
+
 * 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
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b12a5d1..b5362bf 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mate-settings-daemon-1.18.0.tar.xz) = 156166039ee2bd108f4932ab27423e94dba9e7d0e27d814419d74a1d8ddddb18f452a3e43bc0522dc832a0fc415ceb481d4fe656367ff73f6d8b30ad27e42278
+SHA512 (mate-settings-daemon-1.18.1.tar.xz) = 35ea953a508c1a8a2359a13f36789f2b171873e2b153f3c7e5e779a900672cf19a4f36892136d4886e61349f536706f0ab0e781cbde3e246c490c66af3e621d6