diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bf3aefb..c373503 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ geeqie-1.0.tar.gz
 /geeqie-v1.2.1.tar.xz
 /geeqie-1.2.2.tar.xz
 /geeqie-1.3.tar.xz
+/geeqie-1.4.tar.xz
diff --git a/geeqie-1.4-Wno-unused-but-set-variable.patch b/geeqie-1.4-Wno-unused-but-set-variable.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b47c7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geeqie-1.4-Wno-unused-but-set-variable.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- geeqie-1.4.orig/configure.in	2017-12-31 07:31:21.000000000 -0500
++++ geeqie-1.4/configure.in	2018-01-01 14:26:40.782261872 -0500
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
+ AC_INIT([geeqie], 1.4, [https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues], [], [http://www.geeqie.org/])
+ 
+ # Add -Werror to the default CFLAGS
+-CFLAGS+=" -Werror -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-error=return-type"
++CFLAGS+=" -Werror -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-error=return-type -Wno-unused-but-set-variable"
+ 
+ # Check for rightly dirs
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
diff --git a/geeqie.spec b/geeqie.spec
index 7bb4dc2..1dea566 100644
--- a/geeqie.spec
+++ b/geeqie.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 Summary: Image browser and viewer
 Name: geeqie
-Version: 1.3
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 1.4
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Source0: http://geeqie.org/geeqie-%{version}.tar.xz
 
@@ -24,8 +24,14 @@ URL: http://geeqie.org
 # add -Wl,--as-needed without disturbing %%configure macro
 Patch0: geeqie-1.1-LDFLAGS.patch
 
-# from http://sources.debian.net/data/main/g/geeqie/1:1.3-1/debian/patches/
-Patch9: geeqie-1.3-bug-800350-libstc++-copy-on-write-string.diff
+# add -Wno-unused-but-set-variable because upstream added -Werror (good)
+# but we add -Wall so we're more strict. This relaxes that, but we don't
+# want to carry this forever. One issue looks likely harmless
+# https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/567 and the other looks like
+# probably a bunch of submenus that should be there aren't
+# https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/566
+# .. in any case, we should remove this patch once upstream has that fixed.
+Patch1: geeqie-1.4-Wno-unused-but-set-variable.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gtk2-devel
 BuildRequires: lcms2-devel
@@ -59,6 +65,7 @@ and zoom.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch1 -p1
 autoreconf -f -i ; intltoolize
 # guard against missing executables at (re)build-time,
 # these are needed by the plug-in scripts
@@ -71,13 +78,17 @@ for f in ufraw-batch ; do
 done
 %endif
 %patch0 -p1
-%patch9 -p1
+
+
 
 %build
 %configure --enable-lirc --disable-tiff \
     --with-readmedir=%{_pkgdocdir}
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
+# work around https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/568
+touch ChangeLog
+
 
 %install
 mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_pkgdocdir}/html
@@ -87,7 +98,7 @@ make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} INSTALL="install -p" install
 [ ! -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_pkgdocdir}/html/index.html ] && exit -1
 
 # We want these _docdir files in GQ_HELPDIR.
-install -p -m 0644 AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README* TODO \
+install -p -m 0644 AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README* TODO \
     ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_pkgdocdir}
 
 desktop-file-install \
@@ -122,6 +133,16 @@ update-desktop-database &> /dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jan 01 2018 Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-1
+- new upstream release
+- drop exiv2 patch libstc++-copy-on-write-string -- now upstream
+- add patch to relax warnings on unused-but-set variables -- see
+  upstream https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/566 and
+  https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/567
+- drop ChangeLog since it's missing from the release tarball, and also we
+  nominally dropped it from the package in 2008 for being "too low level"
+  (see earlier rpm changelog entry)
+
 * Wed Aug 02 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 287ebb6..a287797 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0339ad62946cae7009ec76ec21572065  geeqie-1.3.tar.xz
+SHA512 (geeqie-1.4.tar.xz) = a88b6dcf30847e38c109f5bc6436d93f6b4e1336a094c6b8a45db117830117120bf58f390afcd8a4b7aaf2934f995c3f75ac33a7faf56bfc2bcc9bd4eebfb205