diff --git a/hfst-ospell.changes b/hfst-ospell.changes
index 5374b84..50f6552 100644
--- a/hfst-ospell.changes
+++ b/hfst-ospell.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 20 12:27:04 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Add hack for icu 61 and newer -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=1
+  * This needs to be removed when properly fixed upstream
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 20 12:19:28 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Version update to 0.5.0:
+  * rename hfst_ol namespace to hfst_ospell to avoid conflicts
+  * improve distinguishing between lemmas and tags in analysis
+  * fix issue #37
+  * avoid shadowing multicharacter ascii-beginning symbols
+  * use minimal XML parsing to get locale, title, and description for Voikko and other frontends
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 18 17:57:05 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/hfst-ospell.spec b/hfst-ospell.spec
index 13c8599..90a1376 100644
--- a/hfst-ospell.spec
+++ b/hfst-ospell.spec
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
 %define _name hfstospell
 %define libname libhfstospell10
 Name:           hfst-ospell
-Version:        0.4.5
+Version:        0.5.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Spell checker library and tool based on HFST
 License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Productivity/Text/Spell
-Url:            http://hfst.github.io/
+URL:            http://hfst.github.io/
 Source0:        https://github.com/hfst/%{name}/releases/download/v%{version}/%{_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source99:       baselibs.conf
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ Development headers and libraries for hfst-ospell
 %build
 # disable libxml++ as upstream requires version 2.6
 # disable tinyxml2 as upstream requires version < 3.0
+export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=1"
 %configure \
     --disable-static \
     --disable-silent-rules \
@@ -79,17 +80,15 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check || :
 %postun -n %{libname} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc AUTHORS NEWS README COPYING
+%doc AUTHORS NEWS README
 %{_bindir}/*
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %files -n %{libname}
-%defattr(-,root,root)
+%license COPYING
 %{_libdir}/*.so.*
 
 %files -n hfst-ospell-devel
-%defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_includedir}/*
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*
 %{_libdir}/*.so
diff --git a/hfstospell-0.4.5.tar.gz b/hfstospell-0.4.5.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index bbd6541..0000000
--- a/hfstospell-0.4.5.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:cf10817d1d82f0a7268992ab6ccf475fae2d838e6b9fc59eb6db38e9c21a311e
-size 432778
diff --git a/hfstospell-0.5.0.tar.gz b/hfstospell-0.5.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6616750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hfstospell-0.5.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:0fd2ad367f8a694c60742deaee9fcf1225e4921dd75549ef0aceca671ddfe1cd
+size 451485