diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9b94286..f5f70b9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/digikam-1.8.0.tar.bz2
+/digikam-1.9.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/digikam-1.8.0-gcc46.patch b/digikam-1.8.0-gcc46.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5de5746..0000000
--- a/digikam-1.8.0-gcc46.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff -up digikam-1.8.0/libs/threads/dynamicthread.cpp.gcc46 digikam-1.8.0/libs/threads/dynamicthread.cpp
---- digikam-1.8.0/libs/threads/dynamicthread.cpp.gcc46	2011-01-23 13:27:56.000000000 -0600
-+++ digikam-1.8.0/libs/threads/dynamicthread.cpp	2011-02-04 10:05:11.969447213 -0600
-@@ -257,6 +257,12 @@ bool DynamicThread::DynamicThreadPriv::t
-             kDebug() << "Transition to Running: Invalid Inactive state" << q;
-             return false;
-         }
-+	// fix gcc-4.6 failure --  error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
-+	default:
-+        {
-+            kDebug() << "libs/threads/dynanamicthread.cpp : Should never reach here: assert?" << q;
-+            return false;
-+        }
-     }
- }
- 
diff --git a/digikam.spec b/digikam.spec
index edbc969..19fa5db 100644
--- a/digikam.spec
+++ b/digikam.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 Name:	 digikam
-Version: 1.8.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 1.9.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A digital camera accessing & photo management application
 
 Group:	 Applications/Multimedia
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ Patch50: digikam-1.4.0_marble_plugin_rpath.patch
 Patch51: digikam-1.8.0-libjpeg_version.patch
 # a more minimal, upstreamable version
 Patch52: digikam-1.8.0-libjpeg_version-3.patch
-# gcc-4.6-ism , error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
-Patch53: digikam-1.8.0-gcc46.patch
 
 ## upstream patches
 
@@ -90,7 +88,6 @@ needed to develop applications using %{name}.
 
 %patch50 -p1 -b .marble_plugin_rpath
 %patch52 -p1 -b .libjpeg_version
-%patch53 -p1 -b .gcc46
 
 
 %build
@@ -174,6 +171,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 17 2011 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.9.0-1
+- 1.9.0
+
 * Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6862d23..3d33109 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-54aa6150183621cabd5ea222d55685a4  digikam-1.8.0.tar.bz2
+08934e97b63e8b1981f4087ec1a3372e  digikam-1.9.0.tar.bz2