diff --git a/XML-LibXML-1.87.tar.gz b/XML-LibXML-1.87.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bcf7ed..0000000
--- a/XML-LibXML-1.87.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:91ad15f34bcb1ac45269b60978baa489f5293b09892a72b4acdfa386588427da
-size 431027
diff --git a/XML-LibXML-1.88.tar.gz b/XML-LibXML-1.88.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e8dbc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/XML-LibXML-1.88.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:113fef712816b8073362b61a54cbe4dc393f1f9fbd33288b47e3295f57a47f14
+size 432186
diff --git a/perl-XML-LibXML.changes b/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
index 1aafc16..aa13690 100644
--- a/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
+++ b/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 22 12:49:34 UTC 2011 - vcizek@suse.com
+
+- update to 1.88
+    - Add libxml2 2.7.8 as tested and working fine for the Makefile.PL.
+    (Thanks to H. Merijn Brand.).
+    - Apply a patch to perl-libxml-sax.c to use xmlChar * instead of char *.
+    (Thanks to H. Merijn Brand.).
+    - Correct the README so it won't read XML-LibXML-Common.
+        - see http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-xml/8907/
+    - Add a patch to implement the no_defdtd option in recent libxml2's:
+        - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70878
+        - Thanks to zzgrim@gmail.com .
+    - Add scripts/bump-version-number.pl to modify the version number globally.
+        - Currently the version numbers of the modules under lib/ where 1.73.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug 29 08:23:27 UTC 2011 - vcizek@suse.com
 
diff --git a/perl-XML-LibXML.spec b/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
index b596197..d3a7b5b 100644
--- a/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
@@ -15,28 +15,26 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
-# norootforbuild
 
 
 Name:           perl-XML-LibXML
-%define cpan_name %( echo %{name} | %{__sed} -e 's,perl-,,' )
-Summary:        Perl Binding for libxml2
-Version:        1.87
+Version:        1.88
 Release:        1
-AutoReqProv:    on
-Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 License:        GPL-1.0+ or Artistic
+%define cpan_name %( echo %{name} | sed -e 's,perl-,,' )
+Summary:        Perl Binding for libxml2
 Url:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-LibXML/
+Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 Source:         %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-%{perl_requires}
 BuildRequires:  perl
-BuildRequires:  perl-macros
-BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel >= 2.6.16
 BuildRequires:  perl(XML::SAX) >= 0.11
+BuildRequires:  perl-macros
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) >= 2.6.16
 Requires:       perl(XML::SAX) >= 0.11
 Provides:       perl-XML-LibXML-Common = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      perl-XML-LibXML-Common < %{version}
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+%{perl_requires}
 
 %description
 This module implements a Perl interface to the Gnome libxml2 library which
@@ -50,14 +48,14 @@ the high performance DOM implementation.
 %build
 # [2,7,1,0], # broken release, broken utf-16
 %if 0%{?suse_version} == 1110
-%{__perl} Makefile.PL OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wall" FORCE=1
+perl Makefile.PL OPTIMIZE="%{optflags} -Wall" FORCE=1
 %else
-%{__perl} Makefile.PL OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wall"
+perl Makefile.PL OPTIMIZE="%{optflags} -Wall"
 %endif
-%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %check
-%{__make} test
+make test
 
 %install
 %perl_make_install
@@ -65,7 +63,7 @@ the high performance DOM implementation.
 %perl_gen_filelist
 
 %clean
-%{__rm} -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 %files -f %{name}.files
 %defattr(-,root,root)