diff --git a/cinnamon-desktop.spec b/cinnamon-desktop.spec
index 8ba114a..23201fc 100644
--- a/cinnamon-desktop.spec
+++ b/cinnamon-desktop.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-%global commit  75d297afd502186c94473341000012e51b2aec69
-%global date 20170421
-%global shortcommit0 %(c=%{commit}; echo ${c:0:7})
-
 %global gtk3_version                      3.10.0
 %global glib2_version                     2.37.3
 %global startup_notification_version      0.5
@@ -11,16 +7,14 @@
 Summary: Shared code among cinnamon-session, nemo, etc
 Name:    cinnamon-desktop
 Version: 3.4.0
-Release: 0.2%{?shortcommit0:.%{date}git%{shortcommit0}}%{?dist}
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT
 URL:     https://github.com/linuxmint/
-#Source0: %%url/%%{name}/archive/%%{version}.tar.gz#/%%{name}-%%{version}.tar.gz
-Source0: %url/%{name}/archive/%{commit}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{commit}.tar.gz
+Source0: %url/%{name}/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1: x-cinnamon-mimeapps.list
 
 Patch0:   set_font_defaults.patch
 Patch1:   set_logind.patch
-Patch2:   gnome-bg.patch
 
 Requires: redhat-menus
 
@@ -38,6 +32,7 @@ BuildRequires: pkgconfig(xkbfile)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(xkeyboard-config)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(gtk-doc) >= %{gtk_doc_version}
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libpulse)
+BuildRequires: pkgconfig(accountsservice) 
 BuildRequires: gnome-common
 BuildRequires: intltool
 BuildRequires: itstool
@@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ Libraries and header files for the CINNAMON-internal private library
 libcinnamon-desktop.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -p1 -n %{name}-%{commit}
+%autosetup -p1
 NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 
 %build
@@ -103,6 +98,9 @@ install -m 644 %SOURCE1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/x-cinnamon-mimea
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/C*.gir
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 03 2017 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com> - 3.4.0-1
+- update to 3.4.0 release
+
 * Tue May 02 2017 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com> - 3.4.0-0.2.20170421git75d297a
 - remove requires xorg-x11-drv-libinput
 
diff --git a/gnome-bg.patch b/gnome-bg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 435babe..0000000
--- a/gnome-bg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/libcinnamon-desktop/gnome-bg.c b/libcinnamon-desktop/gnome-bg.c
-index fb0c46a..2716d4f 100644
---- a/libcinnamon-desktop/gnome-bg.c
-+++ b/libcinnamon-desktop/gnome-bg.c
-@@ -325,87 +325,6 @@ bg_gsettings_mapping (GVariant *value,
- }
- 
- void
--gnome_bg_set_accountsservice_background (const gchar *background)
--{
--  GDBusProxy *proxy = NULL;
--  GDBusProxy *user = NULL;
--  GVariant *variant = NULL;
--  GError *error = NULL;
--  gchar *object_path = NULL;
--
--  proxy = g_dbus_proxy_new_for_bus_sync (G_BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM,
--                                         G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NONE,
--                                         NULL,
--                                         "org.freedesktop.Accounts",
--                                         "/org/freedesktop/Accounts",
--                                         "org.freedesktop.Accounts",
--                                         NULL,
--                                         &error);
--
--  if (proxy == NULL) {
--    g_warning ("Failed to contact accounts service: %s", error->message);
--    g_error_free (error);
--    return;
--  }
--
--  variant = g_dbus_proxy_call_sync (proxy,
--                                    "FindUserByName",
--                                    g_variant_new ("(s)", g_get_user_name ()),
--                                    G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE,
--                                    -1,
--                                    NULL,
--                                    &error);
--
--  if (variant == NULL) {
--    g_warning ("Could not contact accounts service to look up '%s': %s",
--               g_get_user_name (), error->message);
--    g_error_free (error);
--    goto bail;
--  }
--
--  g_variant_get (variant, "(o)", &object_path);
--  user = g_dbus_proxy_new_for_bus_sync (G_BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM,
--                                        G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NONE,
--                                        NULL,
--                                        "org.freedesktop.Accounts",
--                                        object_path,
--                                        "org.freedesktop.Accounts.User",
--                                        NULL,
--                                        &error);
--  g_free (object_path);
--
--  if (user == NULL) {
--    g_warning ("Could not create proxy for user '%s': %s",
--               g_variant_get_string (variant, NULL), error->message);
--    g_error_free (error);
--    goto bail;
--  }
--  g_variant_unref (variant);
--
--  variant = g_dbus_proxy_call_sync (user,
--                                    "SetBackgroundFile",
--                                    g_variant_new ("(s)", background ? background : ""),
--                                    G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE,
--                                    -1,
--                                    NULL,
--                                    &error);
--
--  if (variant == NULL) {
--    g_warning ("Failed to set the background '%s': %s", background, error->message);
--    g_error_free (error);
--    goto bail;
--  }
--
--bail:
--  if (proxy != NULL)
--    g_object_unref (proxy);
--  if (user != NULL)
--    g_object_unref (user);
--  if (variant != NULL)
--    g_variant_unref (variant);
--}
--
--void
- gnome_bg_load_from_preferences (GnomeBG   *bg,
- 				GSettings *settings)
- {
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 01bdec8..11b6e11 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (cinnamon-desktop-75d297afd502186c94473341000012e51b2aec69.tar.gz) = 341c6bc42b377b1a26ace365076620759771ca48cac8631ea1b0497c4f0249cf60f61adeffd8f652eca772af8130b59ea9b3f7546db825e9ebd913da5d74779e
+SHA512 (cinnamon-desktop-3.4.0.tar.gz) = 4e07d026c4da0e5a57796c355ae03449aee431a3899a77cb4154b3772cee7669a3aefa2133d636a9d1655be41efb227d52b3b53ae355e172cfc0ecb599a9b319