diff --git a/mc.changes b/mc.changes
index 7edfb0b..4aee5af 100644
--- a/mc.changes
+++ b/mc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 10 20:51:29 UTC 2014 - dnh@opensuse.org
+
+- disable the ssh/fish vfs due to
+  http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128 and
+  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856501
+- remove unneccessary build-dep on recode
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  1 19:48:54 UTC 2014 - andreas.stieger@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/mc.spec b/mc.spec
index f3d994b..7c93fc6 100644
--- a/mc.spec
+++ b/mc.spec
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
 BuildRequires:  libssh2-devel
 BuildRequires:  readline-devel
-BuildRequires:  recode
 BuildRequires:  slang-devel
 BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
 BuildRequires:  xdg-utils
@@ -136,6 +135,7 @@ export X11_WWW="%{_datadir}/mc/x11_browser"
     --localstatedir=/var/lib \
     --enable-charset \
     --enable-vfs-smb --with-smb-configdir=%{_sysconfdir}/samba \
+    --disable-vfs-fish
 
 make %{?jobs:-j%{jobs}} V=1