diff -Nru budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/changelog budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/changelog
--- budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/changelog	2018-03-17 15:41:00.000000000 +0000
+++ budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/changelog	2018-04-01 19:28:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+budgie-desktop (10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8-1.2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bug fix release
+    - add patch to fix system tray black backgrounds
+      fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch
+
+ -- David Mohammed <fossfreedom@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:28:30 +0100
+
 budgie-desktop (10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Non-maintainer upload
diff -Nru budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch
--- budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch	2018-04-01 19:28:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+Description: Initialise system tray via idle #1249
+ Initialise the startup of the system tray via GLib idle.
+ This allows the system tray startup fully stopping black background
+ and icon positioning issues.
+Author: David Mohammed <fossfreedom@ubuntu.com>
+Bug: https://github.com/budgie-desktop/budgie-desktop/issues/1249
+Forwarded: https://github.com/budgie-desktop/budgie-desktop/pull/1366
+Last-Update: 2018-03-22
+
+--- budgie-desktop-10.4.orig/src/applets/tray/TrayApplet.vala
++++ budgie-desktop-10.4/src/applets/tray/TrayApplet.vala
+@@ -39,22 +39,25 @@ public class TrayApplet : Budgie.Applet
+         box.vexpand = false;
+         vexpand = false;
+ 
+-        map.connect_after(()=> {
+-            maybe_integrate_tray();
+-        });
++        Idle.add(()=> { 
++            map.connect_after(()=> {
++                maybe_integrate_tray();
++            });
+ 
+ 
+-        show_all();
+-        panel_size_changed.connect((p,i,s)=> {
+-            this.icon_size = s;
+-            if (tray != null) {
+-                tray.set_icon_size(icon_size);
+-                queue_resize();
+-                tray.queue_resize();
+-            }
+-        });
++            show_all();
++            panel_size_changed.connect((p,i,s)=> {
++                this.icon_size = s;
++                if (tray != null) {
++                    tray.set_icon_size(icon_size);
++                    queue_resize();
++                    tray.queue_resize();
++                }
++            });
+ 
+-        size_allocate.connect(on_size_allocate);
++            size_allocate.connect(on_size_allocate);
++            return false;
++        });
+     }
+ 
+     public override void panel_position_changed(Budgie.PanelPosition position)
diff -Nru budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/series budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/series
--- budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/series	2018-03-17 15:41:00.000000000 +0000
+++ budgie-desktop-10.4+git20171031.10.g9f71bb8/debian/patches/series	2018-04-01 19:28:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 0001-Obtain-gsettings-transparency-key-value-before-showi.patch
 0002-Switch-to-checking-GSD-version-for-the-build-1319.patch
 libmutter-2.patch
+fix_black_tray_backgrounds.patch