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diff --git a/Convert-UUlib-1.8.tar.gz b/Convert-UUlib-1.8.tar.gz
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diff --git a/perl-Convert-UUlib.changes b/perl-Convert-UUlib.changes
index 3f961ab..0367173 100644
--- a/perl-Convert-UUlib.changes
+++ b/perl-Convert-UUlib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec 17 03:06:11 UTC 2020 - Tina Müller <timueller+perl@suse.de>
+
+- updated to 1.8
+   see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Convert-UUlib/Changes
+
+  TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
+
+  1.8  Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 CET 2020
+  	- no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
+            in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
+  	- update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK and use Smerge -1.
+  	- some micro-optimisations.
+          - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
+            which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
+          - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
+          - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
+            match speed with large usenet file lists.
+          - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux.
+          - clean up _FP symbol names toi not start with an underscore.
+          - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
+          - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
+  	- misc very minor code improvements.
+          - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
+          - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
+            speed gain.
+          - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
+          - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
+            interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
+            than the original upstream library.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 17 03:10:13 UTC 2020 -  <timueller+perl@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/perl-Convert-UUlib.spec b/perl-Convert-UUlib.spec
index 9b20c2f..ab3ef5f 100644
--- a/perl-Convert-UUlib.spec
+++ b/perl-Convert-UUlib.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package perl-Convert-UUlib
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 
 
 Name:           perl-Convert-UUlib
-Version:        1.71
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 #Upstream: CHECK(Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0-or-later)
 %define cpan_name Convert-UUlib
-Summary:        Perl interface to the uulib library (a.k.a. uudeview/uuenview)
+Summary:        Decode uu/xx/b64/mime/yenc/etc-encoded data from a massive number of files
 License:        GPL-1.0-or-later
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
-Url:            https://metacpan.org/release/%{cpan_name}
+URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/%{cpan_name}
 Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/ML/MLEHMANN/%{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        cpanspec.yml
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ Obsoletes:      p_conulb
 # MANUAL END
 
 %description
+This module started as an interface to the uulib/uudeview library by Frank
+Pilhofer that can be used to decode all kinds of usenet (and other) binary
+messages.
+
+After upstream abondoned the project, th library was continuously bugfixed
+and improved in this module, with major focuses on security fixes,
+correctness and speed (that does not mean that this library is considered
+safe with untrusted data, but it surely is safer than the poriginal
+uudeview).
+
 Read the file doc/library.pdf from the distribution for in-depth
 information about the C-library used in this interface, and the rest of
 this document and especially the non-trivial decoder program at the end.