diff --git a/mate-applets.spec b/mate-applets.spec
index 4488705..a5ce26c 100644
--- a/mate-applets.spec
+++ b/mate-applets.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.8
+%global branch 1.9
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit c3b48ea39ab358b45048e300deafaa3f569748ad}
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 Name:           mate-applets
 Version:        %{branch}.0
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 #Release:        0.1%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 Summary:        MATE Desktop panel applets
 License:        GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ URL:            http://mate-desktop.org
 #Add patch to fix cpufreq compilation (Thanks Wolfgang)
 Patch0:  cpufreq.patch
 
-#BuildRequires: gucharmap-devel
 BuildRequires: libgtop2-devel
 BuildRequires: libnotify-devel
 BuildRequires: libmateweather-devel
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ BuildRequires: mate-icon-theme-devel
 BuildRequires: mate-notification-daemon
 BuildRequires: mate-panel-devel
 BuildRequires: polkit-devel
-BuildRequires: pygtk2-devel
+BuildRequires: unique-devel
 BuildRequires: pygobject3-devel
 BuildRequires: startup-notification-devel
 Buildrequires: upower-devel
@@ -170,6 +169,10 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 12 2014 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.9.0-1
+- update to 1.9.0 release
+- remove gucharmap BR for GTK2
+
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.0-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild