diff --git a/gsoap-2.8.49.tar.xz b/gsoap-2.8.49.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 38337d8..0000000
--- a/gsoap-2.8.49.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b322c029674d8f5cf1f88eb3d4a63e15edb539569cfca1cb6bcc850b6505374c
-size 19328196
diff --git a/gsoap-2.8.50.tar.xz b/gsoap-2.8.50.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d442f75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gsoap-2.8.50.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:00a0f9668c03cac781b7b1985edf04c0bd332b20b694fcc5d46fb36a7262370a
+size 19450764
diff --git a/gsoap.changes b/gsoap.changes
index fb97e2a..67ee57d 100644
--- a/gsoap.changes
+++ b/gsoap.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 24 08:30:47 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Update to new upstream release 2.8.50
+  * Added `soap->recv_maxlength` to change the limit on the
+    length of messages received. Default is 2GB max. Greater
+    lengths are possible.
+  * Removed client-side `SOAP_PURE_VIRTUAL` from `copy()` in the
+    code generated by soapcpp2 for options `-i` and `-j`.
+  * Updated memory deallocation of `soap_del_xsd__anyAttribute`.
+  * Updated the callback function signatures of `fpost` and
+    `fresponse`.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 13 11:39:49 UTC 2017 - olaf@aepfle.de
 
diff --git a/gsoap.spec b/gsoap.spec
index 4fc30a1..9e1b6a8 100644
--- a/gsoap.spec
+++ b/gsoap.spec
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 
 Name:           gsoap
-%define lname	libgsoap-2_8_49
-Version:        2.8.49
+%define lname	libgsoap-2_8_50
+Version:        2.8.50
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Toolkit for SOAP/REST-based C/C++ server and client web service applications
 License:        SUSE-GPL-2.0+-with-openssl-exception
diff --git a/sanitize_source.sh b/sanitize_source.sh
index da207df..bb224be 100644
--- a/sanitize_source.sh
+++ b/sanitize_source.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if ! which hardlink >/dev/null; then
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
-version="2.8.49"
+version="2.8.50"
 shortver="2.8" # agh...
 if [ ! -e "gsoap_$version.zip" ]; then
 	wget -c "http://downloads.sf.net/gsoap2/gsoap_$version.zip"