diff --git a/XML-LibXML-1.71.tar.bz2 b/XML-LibXML-1.71.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 192f836..0000000
--- a/XML-LibXML-1.71.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:de2d56cddc7c2c45057bc7c83d564bc94f22ee4b96205f1a2fb24492800e5bf7
-size 275323
diff --git a/XML-LibXML-1.79.tar.gz b/XML-LibXML-1.79.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..096d839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/XML-LibXML-1.79.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:33bf3c9fc144821e75c741fa9d28ea70879f64fc3011016685413475a0040650
+size 424459
diff --git a/perl-XML-LibXML-utf16.diff b/perl-XML-LibXML-utf16.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index bebd964..0000000
--- a/perl-XML-LibXML-utf16.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- t/09xpath.t
-+++ t/09xpath.t
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- use Test;
- use strict;
- 
--BEGIN { plan tests => 57 };
-+BEGIN { plan tests => 55 };
- use XML::LibXML;
- 
- my $xmlstring = <<EOSTR;
-@@ -139,12 +139,7 @@
-   use utf8;
-   my @nodes = $doc->findnodes("//p");
-   ok (@nodes == 1);
--  skip(
--    (20700 > XML::LibXML::LIBXML_RUNTIME_VERSION)
--	? "UTF-16 and HTML broken in libxml2 < 2.7"
--	: 0,
--    $nodes[0]->textContent, "utf-16 test with umlauts: \x{e4}\x{f6}\x{fc}\x{c4}\x{d6}\x{dc}\x{df}");
--}
-+  }
- 
- {
-   # from #36576
-@@ -153,9 +148,4 @@
-   ok($doc);
-   my @nodes = $doc->findnodes("//p");
-   ok (@nodes == 1);
--  skip(
--    (20700 > XML::LibXML::LIBXML_RUNTIME_VERSION)
--	? "UTF-16 and HTML broken in libxml2 < 2.7"
--	: 0,
--    $nodes[0]->textContent, "utf-16 test with umlauts: \x{e4}\x{f6}\x{fc}\x{c4}\x{d6}\x{dc}\x{df}");
--}
-+  }
diff --git a/perl-XML-LibXML.changes b/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
index 647eaea..573cc3f 100644
--- a/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
+++ b/perl-XML-LibXML.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 11 14:28:38 UTC 2011 - vcizek@novell.com
+
+ - update to 1.79
+    - many rt bug fixes
+    - most of the tests rewritten to use Test::More
+ - dropped utf-16 patch (no longer needed)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 16 07:37:20 UTC 2011 - vcizek@novell.com
 
diff --git a/perl-XML-LibXML.spec b/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
index 7623ce9..737f03c 100644
--- a/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-LibXML.spec
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@
 Name:           perl-XML-LibXML
 %define cpan_name %( echo %{name} | %{__sed} -e 's,perl-,,' )
 Summary:        Perl Binding for libxml2
-Version:        1.71
+Version:        1.79
 Release:        1
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Perl
 License:        GPL-1.0+ or Artistic
 Url:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-LibXML/
-Source:         %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Patch:          %{name}-utf16.diff
+Source:         %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %{perl_requires}
 BuildRequires:  perl
@@ -47,7 +46,6 @@ the high performance DOM implementation.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{cpan_name}-%{version}
-%patch
 
 %build
 # [2,7,1,0], # broken release, broken utf-16