diff --git a/DBD-SQLite-1.68.tar.gz b/DBD-SQLite-1.68.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index ebfed67..0000000
--- a/DBD-SQLite-1.68.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0e84e831a50d547d2e634b66650455f1791f223495c9138db82d42360c691e61
-size 2537419
diff --git a/DBD-SQLite-1.70.tar.gz b/DBD-SQLite-1.70.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10be83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DBD-SQLite-1.70.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:40fd8ddf539e0e773a7a4e6d376794c3301459f9ab0050978bdcf97113dafe3e
+size 2537672
diff --git a/cpanspec.yml b/cpanspec.yml
index 54d7205..dd71ab0 100644
--- a/cpanspec.yml
+++ b/cpanspec.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #sources:
 #  - source1
 #  - source2
-patches:
-  silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch: -p1
+#patches:
+#  silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch: -p1
 #  bar.patch:
 #preamble: |-
 # BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
diff --git a/perl-DBD-SQLite.changes b/perl-DBD-SQLite.changes
index c7bda57..0d2daa2 100644
--- a/perl-DBD-SQLite.changes
+++ b/perl-DBD-SQLite.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  2 13:06:28 UTC 2021 - Tina Müller <tina.mueller@suse.com>
+
+- Remove silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch (upstream fix)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  2 03:07:06 UTC 2021 - Tina Müller <timueller+perl@suse.de>
+
+- updated to 1.70
+   see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-DBD-SQLite/Changes
+
+  1.70 2021-08-01
+      - Switched to a production version
+
+  1.69_02 2021-07-30
+      - Fix doc to use the correct attribute with sqlite_ (GH#86, eekboek++)
+      - Modify the fix to silence the sqlite_unicode warning not to check
+        the attribute twice
+      - Fix an encoding issue of naive (GH#83, HaraldJoerg++)
+
+  1.69_01 2021-07-30
+      - Typo (GH#85, grr++)
+      - Silenced deprecation warning of sqlite_unicode not to break
+        tests of existing applications
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul 30 07:51:14 UTC 2021 - Tina Müller <tina.mueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/perl-DBD-SQLite.spec b/perl-DBD-SQLite.spec
index 005170d..6045658 100644
--- a/perl-DBD-SQLite.spec
+++ b/perl-DBD-SQLite.spec
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
 
 %define cpan_name DBD-SQLite
 Name:           perl-DBD-SQLite
-Version:        1.68
+Version:        1.70
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Self-contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver
 License:        Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
 URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/%{cpan_name}
 Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/%{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        cpanspec.yml
-Patch0:         silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch
 BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
 BuildRequires:  perl(DBI) >= 1.57
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ currently many statement attributes are not implemented or are limited by
 the typeless nature of the SQLite database.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup  -n %{cpan_name}-%{version} -p1
+%autosetup  -n %{cpan_name}-%{version}
 
 %build
 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="%{optflags}"
diff --git a/silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch b/silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f596f8..0000000
--- a/silence_sqlite_unicode_deprecation_warning.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/dbdimp.c b/dbdimp.c
-index a8361ac..6dbff60 100644
---- a/dbdimp.c
-+++ b/dbdimp.c
-@@ -857,7 +857,10 @@ sqlite_db_STORE_attrib(SV *dbh, imp_dbh_t *imp_dbh, SV *keysv, SV *valuesv)
-     }
- 
-     if (strEQ(key, "sqlite_unicode") || strEQ(key, "unicode")) {
--        _warn_deprecated_if_possible(key, "sqlite_string_mode");
-+        if (strEQ(key, "unicode")) {
-+            /* it's too early to warn the deprecation of sqlite_unicode as it's widely used */
-+            _warn_deprecated_if_possible(key, "sqlite_string_mode");
-+        }
- #if PERL_UNICODE_DOES_NOT_WORK_WELL
-         sqlite_trace(dbh, imp_dbh, 3, form("Unicode support is disabled for this version of perl."));
-         imp_dbh->string_mode = DBD_SQLITE_STRING_MODE_PV;