diff --git a/mapserver-6.0.0-beta1.tar.bz2 b/mapserver-6.0.0-beta1.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index b6421c0..0000000
--- a/mapserver-6.0.0-beta1.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:6cbfd5129e5dca5ad69a74e2df809ae0606c64fe879f50996957f2a81e43474a
-size 1920862
diff --git a/mapserver-6.0.0-beta5.tar.gz b/mapserver-6.0.0-beta5.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0c8442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mapserver-6.0.0-beta5.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:7d184d3106265c43c079d1ddda095232fe3f7c163d9f0eee5ee7c5d62127755f
+size 2415412
diff --git a/mapserver.spec b/mapserver.spec
index 93fce74..aa704b7 100644
--- a/mapserver.spec
+++ b/mapserver.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Name:           mapserver
-%define fileversion 6.0.0-beta1
-Version:        6.0.0_beta1
+%define fileversion 6.0.0-beta5
+Version:        6.0.0_beta5
 Release:        1
 License:        BSD
 Group:          Applications/GIS
-Source:         %{name}-%{fileversion}.tar.bz2
+Source:         %{name}-%{fileversion}.tar.gz
 URL:            http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu
 Summary:        Environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications
 Packager:       Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> 
@@ -289,6 +289,10 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_javadir}/*.jar
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 07 2011 Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> 6.0.0-beta5
+- updated with new upstream release 6.0.0-beta5; in the meanwhile
+  python-support was repaired by someone else (dstoecker, adrianSuSE).
+  Kudos to them.
 * Fri Mar 11 2011 Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> 6.0.0-beta1
 - updated with new upstream release 6.0.0-beta1
 * Sun Feb 27 2011 Angelos Tzotsos <tzotsos@opensuse.org> 5.6.6