diff --git a/8.patch b/8.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 71c87d1..0000000
--- a/8.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From 29995967e6ffb9b67ff239b7c2549348d90187da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christoph Junghans <junghans@lanl.gov>
-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:05:29 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] circle_init_builtin: added missing return value
-
----
- src/circle-init.c | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/src/circle-init.c b/src/circle-init.c
-index 771d382..da605ae 100644
---- a/src/circle-init.c
-+++ b/src/circle-init.c
-@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ circle_init_builtin (WORD_LIST *list)
-   for (func = all_circle_builtins; *func; func++)
-     if (load_circle_builtin(*func) != EXECUTION_SUCCESS)
-       return EXECUTION_FAILURE;
-+
-+  return EXECUTION_SUCCESS;
- }
- 
- /* Define the documentation for the circle_init builtin. */
diff --git a/mpibash-1.2.tar.gz b/mpibash-1.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ee91e3..0000000
--- a/mpibash-1.2.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:5c2faaa74464111205dbae4799bd89c2425810ec3708d004237b42d620c8be57
-size 347083
diff --git a/mpibash-1.3.tar.gz b/mpibash-1.3.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..138d746
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mpibash-1.3.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:ab39dcc0eadce765abaf685e73d38f4351e3229fdb4302aee4b9e6e70d431d99
+size 369803
diff --git a/mpibash.changes b/mpibash.changes
index f2e896a..b975f3f 100644
--- a/mpibash.changes
+++ b/mpibash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 22 23:26:48 UTC 2017 - junghans@votca.org
+
+- Version bump to v1.3
+  * drop 8.patch - got merge upstream
+  * "This release includes a few bug fixes, a few improvements to 
+     the build process, and some extra information added to the
+     documentation."
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 14 02:02:24 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/mpibash.spec b/mpibash.spec
index f1b1667..4231ac6 100644
--- a/mpibash.spec
+++ b/mpibash.spec
@@ -22,15 +22,13 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           mpibash
-Version:        1.2
+Version:        1.3
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Parallel scripting right from the Bourne-Again Shell
 License:        GPL-3.0+
 Group:          Productivity/Networking/Other
 Url:            https://github.com/lanl/MPI-Bash
 Source0:        https://github.com/lanl/MPI-Bash/releases/download/v%{version}/mpibash-%{version}.tar.gz
-#PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM - 8.patch - circle_init_builtin: fix return value
-Patch0:         https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/lanl/MPI-Bash/pull/8.patch
 BuildRequires:  bash-devel >= 4.4
 BuildRequires:  %{mpi_implem}
 BuildRequires:  %{mpi_implem}-devel
@@ -60,11 +58,10 @@ This package contains example scripts for mpibash.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 . %{_libdir}/mpi/gcc/%{mpi_implem}/bin/mpivars.sh
-%configure --with-bashdir=/usr/include/bash --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name} --with-plugindir=%{_libdir}/%{name}/ CC=mpicc
+%configure --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name} --with-plugindir=%{_libdir}/%{name}/ CC=mpicc
 %make_build
 
 %install