diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a062d4..e704438 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ folks-0.6.7.tar.xz
 /folks-0.9.4.tar.xz
 /folks-0.9.5.tar.xz
 /folks-0.9.6.tar.xz
+/folks-0.9.7.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/Remove_Assert.patch b/Remove_Assert.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 05f810d..0000000
--- a/Remove_Assert.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff -urp folks-0.9.6.OLD/folks/individual.c folks-0.9.6/folks/individual.c
---- folks-0.9.6.OLD/folks/individual.c	2013-11-06 11:36:18.000000000 -0500
-+++ folks-0.9.6/folks/individual.c	2013-11-18 09:33:25.852692525 -0500
-@@ -3418,7 +3418,6 @@ static void _folks_individual_persona_no
- 		_tmp1_ = _tmp6_ == self;
- 	}
- 	_tmp7_ = _tmp1_;
--	_vala_assert (_tmp7_, "ps.name == \"individual\" || (obj as Persona).individual == this");
- 	{
- 		FolksIndividual_Notifier* notifier_collection = NULL;
- 		gint notifier_collection_length1 = 0;
-diff -urp folks-0.9.6.OLD/folks/individual.vala folks-0.9.6/folks/individual.vala
---- folks-0.9.6.OLD/folks/individual.vala	2013-11-06 10:04:08.000000000 -0500
-+++ folks-0.9.6/folks/individual.vala	2013-11-18 09:47:10.666380935 -0500
-@@ -1206,7 +1206,6 @@ public class Folks.Individual : Object,
-   private void _persona_notify_cb (Object obj, ParamSpec ps)
-     {
-       assert (obj is Persona);
--      assert (ps.name == "individual" || (obj as Persona).individual == this);
- 
-       foreach (var notifier in Individual._notifiers)
-         {
diff --git a/folks.spec b/folks.spec
index 224c978..08a2b57 100644
--- a/folks.spec
+++ b/folks.spec
@@ -5,15 +5,14 @@
 
 Name:           folks
 Epoch:          1
-Version:        0.9.6
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Version:        0.9.7.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        GObject contact aggregation library
 
 Group:          System Environment/Libraries
 License:        LGPLv2+
 URL:            http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks
 Source0:        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/%{name}/0.8/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
-Patch0:         Remove_Assert.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  telepathy-glib-devel >= %{tp_glib_ver}
 BuildRequires:  telepathy-glib-vala
@@ -64,8 +63,6 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1 -b .assert
-
 
 
 %build
@@ -118,6 +115,9 @@ glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jun 24 2014 Richard Hughes <rhughes@redhat.com> - 1:0.9.7.1-1
+- Update to 0.9.7.1
+
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:0.9.6-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index bfb09c5..5e0ad8d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c3759db485f9ac5fd6c28c47e89123b0  folks-0.9.6.tar.xz
+18f3e0799fdea55be7e27bc16e73bd8a  folks-0.9.7.1.tar.xz