diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fd74373..e9c43e9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@
 /marco-1.17.0.tar.xz
 /marco-1.17.1.tar.xz
 /marco-1.18.0.tar.xz
+/marco-1.19.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/marco.spec b/marco.spec
index 12274bb..724e6fa 100644
--- a/marco.spec
+++ b/marco.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.18
+%global branch 1.19
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit 62a708d461e08275d6b85985f5fa13fa8fbc85f7}
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 Name:          marco
 Version:       %{branch}.0
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
-Release:       2%{?dist}
+Release:       1%{?dist}
 %else
 Release:       0.4%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 %endif
@@ -29,10 +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/marco/issues/251
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419634
-Patch1: marco_0001-Revert-compositor-fix-possible-crash-closing-destroy.patch
-
 BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils
 BuildRequires: gtk3-devel
 BuildRequires: libcanberra-devel
@@ -86,8 +82,6 @@ Development files for marco
 %prep
 %setup -q%{!?rel_build:n %{name}-%{commit}}
 
-%patch1 -p1 -b .0001
-
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
 #NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 %else # 0%{?rel_build}
@@ -168,6 +162,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 10 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.19.0-1
+- update to 1.19.0 release
+
 * Sat May 06 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <fedora@raveit.de> - 1.18.0-2
 - fix for https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/251
 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419634
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2fb67a1..de84553 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (marco-1.18.0.tar.xz) = 7a23c37b3eb46c6428be62286a4600b601155f08ebe41807295cd2e299f28e7bc6c40f7a8d462b35bd4b809f7a5be29e7f044287d7389a8d9fb705b4d53fcba2
+SHA512 (marco-1.19.0.tar.xz) = 04350ee86f5b970352df5cfc9ff847ed403901a9c967f7b20c5c4f6e6ca21cea993fb06707a165a92a674ac3bbfce4268b21bab9caf5645705d64cbbe591fe16