diff --git a/_service b/_service
index 352d7fd..9096294 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <param name="scm">git</param>
     <param name="exclude">.git</param>
     <param name="version">git-master</param>
-    <param name="versionformat">0.4.2.%ct.%h</param>
+    <param name="versionformat">0.5.0.%ct.%h</param>
     <param name="revision">master</param>
     <param name="changesgenerate">enable</param>
   </service>
diff --git a/_servicedata b/_servicedata
index 15fe6ed..1074a4d 100644
--- a/_servicedata
+++ b/_servicedata
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <servicedata>
   <service name="tar_scm">
     <param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-tar_scm.git</param>
-    <param name="changesrevision">df3329e67fec7cfe40e59a17329079357bad94a0</param>
+    <param name="changesrevision">6cda976777de4e38ee88efe97353dec92f609614</param>
   </service>
 </servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian.dsc b/debian.dsc
index 08a466f..58f6a3b 100644
--- a/debian.dsc
+++ b/debian.dsc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Format: 1.0
 Source: obs-service-tar-scm
-Version: 0.4.2
+Version: 0.5.0
 Binary: obs-service-tar-scm
 Maintainer: Adrian Schroeter <adrian@suse.de>
 Architecture: all
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.4.2.1412467141.df3329e.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.4.2.1412467141.df3329e.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 71a1bcd..0000000
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.4.2.1412467141.df3329e.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:35dce61cb7b355084191ca6eb30b6bc87cc445213cf44949781c8ae417fc2198
-size 27845
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.0.1412769870.6cda976.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.0.1412769870.6cda976.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7262123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.5.0.1412769870.6cda976.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:0a1ce20c087a6ea2e946585136c6188073159a92e416d9e10692e17c80e7fb39
+size 28233
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index c9e31fa..6113624 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 08 12:13:42 UTC 2014 - aspiers@suse.com
+
+- Update to version 0.5.0.1412769870.6cda976:
+  + change default git versionformat to %ct.%h
+  + fix changes generation when version is blank
+  + lots of refactoring
+  + add info and caveats about data persisting between tests
+  + gittests: give default author test a unique name
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Oct 05 00:02:16 UTC 2014 - aspiers@suse.com
 
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
index 502714b..0dd9e00 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %define service tar_scm
 
 Name:           obs-service-%{service}
-Version:        0.4.2.1412467141.df3329e
+Version:        0.5.0.1412769870.6cda976
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An OBS source service: checkout or update a tar ball from svn/git/hg
 License:        GPL-2.0+