diff -Nru ibus-m17n-1.4.8/configure.ac ibus-m17n-1.4.9/configure.ac
--- ibus-m17n-1.4.8/configure.ac	2021-10-19 15:13:11.000000000 +0000
+++ ibus-m17n-1.4.9/configure.ac	2022-01-18 08:13:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 m4_define([ibus_released], [1])
 m4_define([ibus_major_version], [1])
 m4_define([ibus_minor_version], [4])
-m4_define([ibus_micro_version], [8])
+m4_define([ibus_micro_version], [9])
 m4_define(ibus_maybe_datestamp,
     m4_esyscmd([if test x]ibus_released[ != x1; then date +.%Y%m%d | tr -d '\n\r'; fi]))
 
diff -Nru ibus-m17n-1.4.8/debian/changelog ibus-m17n-1.4.9/debian/changelog
--- ibus-m17n-1.4.8/debian/changelog	2021-12-02 20:08:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ibus-m17n-1.4.9/debian/changelog	2022-01-25 19:56:35.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ibus-m17n (1.4.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Team upload
+  * New upstream release
+
+ -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:56:35 +0100
+
 ibus-m17n (1.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload
diff -Nru ibus-m17n-1.4.8/m17n.appdata.xml ibus-m17n-1.4.9/m17n.appdata.xml
--- ibus-m17n-1.4.8/m17n.appdata.xml	2021-10-19 15:13:11.000000000 +0000
+++ ibus-m17n-1.4.9/m17n.appdata.xml	2022-01-18 08:13:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,28 @@
   <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues</url>
   <url type="help">https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n</url>
   <releases>
+    <release version="1.4.9" date="2022-01-18" urgency="medium">
+      <description>
+        <p>This new stable release includes these changes:</p>
+      </description>
+      <url>github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/releases/tag/1.4.9</url>
+      <issues>
+        <issue>
+          Hide status from the panel if status == title (by Daiki
+          Ueno, this patch has been applied to the Fedora packages for
+          a long time, take it upstream)
+        </issue>
+        <issue url="https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/39">
+          Free lang and name after engine_name is built
+        </issue>
+        <issue url="https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/39">
+          Just return from ibus_m17n_engine_callback with nullable m17n
+        </issue>
+        <issue url="https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/42">
+          Accept virtual engine names for CI
+        </issue>
+      </issues>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.4.8" date="2021-10-19" urgency="medium">
       <description>
         <p>This new stable release includes these changes:</p>
diff -Nru ibus-m17n-1.4.8/po/ibus-m17n.pot ibus-m17n-1.4.9/po/ibus-m17n.pot
--- ibus-m17n-1.4.8/po/ibus-m17n.pot	2021-10-19 15:13:11.000000000 +0000
+++ ibus-m17n-1.4.9/po/ibus-m17n.pot	2022-01-18 08:13:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: ibus-m17n 1.4.7\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: ibus-m17n 1.4.9\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/entry\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-08-13 19:52+0200\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2022-01-18 09:12+0100\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
diff -Nru ibus-m17n-1.4.8/src/engine.c ibus-m17n-1.4.9/src/engine.c
--- ibus-m17n-1.4.8/src/engine.c	2021-10-19 15:13:11.000000000 +0000
+++ ibus-m17n-1.4.9/src/engine.c	2022-01-18 08:13:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     gint lookup_table_orientation;
     gboolean use_us_layout;
 
+    gchar *title;
     MInputMethod *im;
 };
 
@@ -105,9 +106,10 @@
     gchar **strv;
 
     g_return_val_if_fail (g_str_has_prefix (engine_name, "m17n:"), FALSE);
-    strv = g_strsplit (engine_name, ":", 3);
+    /* Test engine name 'm17n:lang:layout:ci' works */
+    strv = g_strsplit (engine_name, ":", -1);
 
-    if (g_strv_length (strv) != 3) {
+    if (g_strv_length (strv) < 3) {
         g_strfreev (strv);
         g_return_val_if_reached (FALSE);
     }
@@ -236,10 +238,13 @@
         "org.freedesktop.ibus.engine.m17n",
         g_strdup_printf ("/org/freedesktop/ibus/engine/m17n/%s/%s/",
                          lang, name));
+    MPlist *l = minput_get_title_icon (msymbol (lang), msymbol (name));
+    if (l && mplist_key (l) == Mtext) {
+        klass->title = ibus_m17n_mtext_to_utf8 (mplist_value (l));
+    }
+    engine_name = g_strdup_printf ("m17n:%s:%s", lang, name);
     g_free (lang);
     g_free (name);
-
-    engine_name = g_strdup_printf ("m17n:%s:%s", lang, name);
     engine_config = ibus_m17n_get_engine_config (engine_name);
     g_free (engine_name);
 
@@ -936,7 +941,12 @@
     IBusM17NEngine *m17n = NULL;
 
     m17n = context->arg;
-    g_return_if_fail (m17n != NULL);
+    /* m17n always can be NULL when create_ic_for_im() calls minput_create_ic()
+     * in m17n-lib-1.8.0/src/input.c and g_return_if_fail() should not be
+     * called with CI since warnings are treated as errors.
+     */
+    if (!m17n)
+        return;
 
     /* the callback may be called in minput_create_ic, in the time
      * m17n->context has not be assigned, so need assign it. */
@@ -959,8 +969,9 @@
     else if (command == Minput_status_draw) {
         gchar *status;
         status = ibus_m17n_mtext_to_utf8 (m17n->context->status);
+        IBusM17NEngineClass *klass = (IBusM17NEngineClass *) G_OBJECT_GET_CLASS (m17n);
 
-        if (status && strlen (status)) {
+        if (status && strlen (status) && g_strcmp0 (status, klass->title)) {
             IBusText *text;
             text = ibus_text_new_from_string (status);
             ibus_property_set_label (m17n->status_prop, text);