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diff --git a/python-hypothesis.changes b/python-hypothesis.changes
index 56813bf..b2ba14c 100644
--- a/python-hypothesis.changes
+++ b/python-hypothesis.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jan  6 17:11:29 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- update to version 3.44.9:
+  * This patch blacklists null characters ('\x00') in automatically
+    created strategies for Django CharField and TextField, due to a
+    database issue which was recently fixed upstream (Hypothesis issue
+    #1045).
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jan  6 07:24:23 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- update to version 3.44.8:
+  * This release makes the Hypothesis shrinker slightly less greedy in
+    order to avoid local minima - when it gets stuck, it makes a small
+    attempt to search around the final example it would previously
+    have returned to find a new starting point to shrink from. This
+    should improve example quality in some cases, especially ones
+    where the test data has dependencies among parts of it that make
+    it difficult for Hypothesis to proceed.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan  4 17:06:43 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/python-hypothesis.spec b/python-hypothesis.spec
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 %define oldpython python
 %endif
 Name:           python-hypothesis
-Version:        3.44.7
+Version:        3.44.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A library for property based testing
 License:        MPL-2.0