diff --git a/python-u-msgpack-python.changes b/python-u-msgpack-python.changes
index 28a7d90..b3d7281 100644
--- a/python-u-msgpack-python.changes
+++ b/python-u-msgpack-python.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Apr  1 22:14:43 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- remove u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch
+
+- update to version 2.5.0:
+  * Add support for the timestamp extension type.
+  * Fix tests on big endian platforms
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar 16 15:13:23 CET 2018 - ro@suse.de
 
 - add u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch (bsc#1085666)
   pack_ext_handler/unpack_ext_handler are broken on bigendian,
-  skip them in the testsuite for now 
+  skip them in the testsuite for now
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 13 18:21:56 UTC 2017 - arun@gmx.de
diff --git a/python-u-msgpack-python.spec b/python-u-msgpack-python.spec
index c2e45aa..2639120 100644
--- a/python-u-msgpack-python.spec
+++ b/python-u-msgpack-python.spec
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-u-msgpack-python
-Version:        2.4.1
+Version:        2.5.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A portable, lightweight MessagePack serializer and deserializer
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            https://github.com/vsergeev/u-msgpack-python
 Source:         https://pypi.io/packages/source/u/u-msgpack-python/u-msgpack-python-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
@@ -44,12 +43,6 @@ UTF-8 string, and application-defined ext types.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n u-msgpack-python-%{version}
-# we are noarch, so ifarch does not work here
-case "$(uname -m)" in
-    ppc|ppc64|s390|s390x)
-%patch0 -p1
-	;;
-esac
 
 %build
 %python_build
diff --git a/u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch b/u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 277f249..0000000
--- a/u-msgpack-bigendian_broken.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- u-msgpack-python-2.4.1/test_umsgpack.py	2018/03/16 14:11:16	1.1
-+++ u-msgpack-python-2.4.1/test_umsgpack.py	2018/03/16 14:12:23
-@@ -474,23 +474,23 @@
-         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
-             _ = umsgpack.Ext(0, u"unicode string")
- 
--    def test_pack_ext_handler(self):
--        for (name, obj, data) in ext_handlers_test_vectors:
--            obj_repr = repr(obj)
--            print("\tTesting %s: object %s" %
--                  (name, obj_repr if len(obj_repr) < 24 else obj_repr[0:24] + "..."))
--
--            packed = umsgpack.packb(obj, ext_handlers=ext_handlers)
--            self.assertEqual(packed, data)
--
--    def test_unpack_ext_handler(self):
--        for (name, obj, data) in ext_handlers_test_vectors:
--            obj_repr = repr(obj)
--            print("\tTesting %s: object %s" %
--                  (name, obj_repr if len(obj_repr) < 24 else obj_repr[0:24] + "..."))
--
--            unpacked = umsgpack.unpackb(data, ext_handlers=ext_handlers)
--            self.assertEqual(unpacked, obj)
-+#    def test_pack_ext_handler(self):
-+#        for (name, obj, data) in ext_handlers_test_vectors:
-+#            obj_repr = repr(obj)
-+#            print("\tTesting %s: object %s" %
-+#                  (name, obj_repr if len(obj_repr) < 24 else obj_repr[0:24] + "..."))
-+#
-+#            packed = umsgpack.packb(obj, ext_handlers=ext_handlers)
-+#            self.assertEqual(packed, data)
-+#
-+#    def test_unpack_ext_handler(self):
-+#        for (name, obj, data) in ext_handlers_test_vectors:
-+#            obj_repr = repr(obj)
-+#            print("\tTesting %s: object %s" %
-+#                  (name, obj_repr if len(obj_repr) < 24 else obj_repr[0:24] + "..."))
-+#
-+#            unpacked = umsgpack.unpackb(data, ext_handlers=ext_handlers)
-+#            self.assertEqual(unpacked, obj)
- 
-     def test_pack_force_float_precision(self):
-         for ((name, obj, data), precision) in zip(float_precision_test_vectors, ["single", "double"]):
diff --git a/u-msgpack-python-2.4.1.tar.gz b/u-msgpack-python-2.4.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c68cea..0000000
--- a/u-msgpack-python-2.4.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:2f31fc1b6dd8632c230ea7012470e40f77119f20999274dda6f1afa9c305e590
-size 12026
diff --git a/u-msgpack-python-2.5.0.tar.gz b/u-msgpack-python-2.5.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b56e3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/u-msgpack-python-2.5.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:412a951097a33a28e6f6136227ce46d8b7ddd44501f87a73f881ed8e41912861
+size 18127