diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b95c96e..f4ee26b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 /mate-session-manager-1.10.2.tar.xz
 /mate-session-manager-1.11.0.tar.xz
 /mate-session-manager-1.12.0.tar.xz
+/mate-session-manager-1.12.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/mate-session-manager.spec b/mate-session-manager.spec
index 36126e1..8173cde 100644
--- a/mate-session-manager.spec
+++ b/mate-session-manager.spec
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
 Name:           mate-session-manager
 Summary:        MATE Desktop session manager
 License:        GPLv2+
-Version:        %{branch}.0
+Version:        %{branch}.1
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 %else
 Release:        0.1%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 %endif
@@ -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}}
 
-# http://git.mate-desktop.org/mate-session-manager/commit/?id=c3dadac
-Patch0:          mate-session-manager_get-rid-of-dependency-on-libmate-desktop.patch
-
 BuildRequires:  dbus-glib-devel
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
 BuildRequires:  gtk3-devel
@@ -62,9 +59,6 @@ full-featured user session.
 %prep
 %setup -q%{!?rel_build:n %{name}-%{commit}}
 
-%patch0 -p1 -b .dependency
-NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
-
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
 # for releases
 #NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
@@ -135,6 +129,10 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 04 2015 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> 1.12.1-1
+- update to 1.12.1 release
+- remove upstreamed patch
+
 * Sat Nov 21 2015 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.12.0-2
 - get rid of dependency to mate-desktop
 - build with gtk3
diff --git a/mate-session-manager_get-rid-of-dependency-on-libmate-desktop.patch b/mate-session-manager_get-rid-of-dependency-on-libmate-desktop.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 705ad01..0000000
--- a/mate-session-manager_get-rid-of-dependency-on-libmate-desktop.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 74d86ac..86150c1 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ GLIB_REQUIRED=2.36.0
- GIO_REQUIRED=2.25.0
- DBUS_GLIB_REQUIRED=0.76
- UPOWER_REQUIRED=0.9.0
--MATE_DESKTOP_REQUIRED=1.9.3
- 
- case "$with_gtk" in
-   2.0) GTK_API_VERSION=2.0
-@@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MATE_SESSION,
-         gio-2.0 >= $GIO_REQUIRED
-         gtk+-$GTK_API_VERSION >= $GTK_REQUIRED
-         dbus-glib-1 >= $DBUS_GLIB_REQUIRED
--        mate-desktop-2.0 >= $MATE_DESKTOP_REQUIRED
- )
- 
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SESSION_PROPERTIES,
-diff --git a/mate-session/main.c b/mate-session/main.c
-index 5f6e221..967bb8a 100644
---- a/mate-session/main.c
-+++ b/mate-session/main.c
-@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
- #include <dbus/dbus-glib-bindings.h>
- #include <dbus/dbus-glib-lowlevel.h>
- 
--#include <libmate-desktop/mate-gsettings.h>
--
- #include "mdm-signal-handler.h"
- #include "mdm-log.h"
- 
-@@ -537,6 +535,22 @@ void debug_changed (GSettings *settings, gchar *key, gpointer user_data)
- 	mdm_log_set_debug (debug);
- }
- 
-+static gboolean
-+schema_exists (const gchar* schema_name)
-+{
-+    GSettingsSchemaSource *source;
-+    GSettingsSchema *schema;
-+    gboolean exists;
-+
-+    source = g_settings_schema_source_get_default();
-+    schema = g_settings_schema_source_lookup (source, schema_name, FALSE);
-+    exists = (schema != NULL);
-+    if (schema)
-+        g_settings_schema_unref (schema);
-+
-+    return exists;
-+}
-+
- static void set_overlay_scroll (void)
- {
- 	GSettings *settings;
-@@ -608,7 +622,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
- 	mdm_log_init();
- 
- 	/* Allows to enable/disable debug from GSettings only if it is not set from argument */
--	if (!debug && mate_gsettings_schema_exists(DEBUG_SCHEMA))
-+	if (!debug && schema_exists(DEBUG_SCHEMA))
- 	{
- 		debug_settings = g_settings_new (DEBUG_SCHEMA);
- 		g_signal_connect (debug_settings, "changed::" DEBUG_KEY, G_CALLBACK (debug_changed), NULL);
-
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3ec0dcd..c8e3b8e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-e7bb01b5f91a6b287fef8e77e94af3e7  mate-session-manager-1.12.0.tar.xz
+dd14694806eca860d6f7fd25297af7dd  mate-session-manager-1.12.1.tar.xz