diff --git a/m4-1.4.16.tar.bz2 b/m4-1.4.16.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d290d7..0000000
--- a/m4-1.4.16.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:42500c1fddd90bcb161e6b58de931d769929c495c124112d67428a23543db90c
-size 1258362
diff --git a/m4-1.4.17.tar.bz2 b/m4-1.4.17.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1b0420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/m4-1.4.17.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:8e4e1f963932136ed45dcd5afb0c6e237e96a6fcdcd2a2fa6755040859500d70
+size 1438525
diff --git a/m4-stdio.in.patch b/m4-stdio.in.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ebd2e6a..0000000
--- a/m4-stdio.in.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Index: m4-1.4.16/lib/stdio.in.h
-===================================================================
---- m4-1.4.16.orig/lib/stdio.in.h
-+++ m4-1.4.16/lib/stdio.in.h
-@@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ _GL_WARN_ON_USE (fflush, "fflush is not
-    so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning.  Assume it is
-    always declared, since it is required by C89.  */
- #undef gets
-+#if HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETS
- _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
-+#endif
- 
- #if @GNULIB_FOPEN@
- # if @REPLACE_FOPEN@
diff --git a/m4.changes b/m4.changes
index e85799b..1927ee8 100644
--- a/m4.changes
+++ b/m4.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 13 18:39:38 UTC 2013 - sweet_f_a@gmx.de
+
+- Update to version 1.4.17:
+  * Fix compilation with newer glibc headers.
+  * Fix a failure with diverting large amounts of text on mingw
+    (does not affect platforms that can rename an open file).
+  * A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
+- remove m4-stdio.in.patch, merged by upstream
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul  9 07:40:14 UTC 2013 - schwab@suse.de
 
diff --git a/m4.spec b/m4.spec
index e293efd..29e4bbd 100644
--- a/m4.spec
+++ b/m4.spec
@@ -19,14 +19,13 @@
 Name:           m4
 Provides:       base:/usr/bin/m4
 PreReq:         %{install_info_prereq}
-Version:        1.4.16
+Version:        1.4.17
 Release:        0
 Summary:        GNU m4
 License:        GPL-3.0+
 Group:          Development/Languages/Other
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
 Source:         http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Patch1:         m4-stdio.in.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ GNU m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \