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-size 231424
diff --git a/eventmachine-1.0.8.gem b/eventmachine-1.0.8.gem
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diff --git a/rubygem-eventmachine.changes b/rubygem-eventmachine.changes
index 8dbcd04..1f00bca 100644
--- a/rubygem-eventmachine.changes
+++ b/rubygem-eventmachine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug  7 04:29:43 UTC 2015 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- updated to version 1.0.8
+ see installed CHANGELOG.md
+
+  ## 1.0.8 (August 6, 2015)
+  * fix kqueue assertion failed, postpone ArmKqueueWriter until all events are processed [#51, #176, #372, #401, #619]
+  * fix Rubinius GC, crank the machine from Ruby space when running Rubinius [#201, #202, #617]
+  * test to show that LineText2 preserves whitespace and newlines [#32, #622]
+  * bump up compiler warnings and resolve them [#616]
+  * fix Windows x64 use uintptr_t instead of unsigned long for binding pointers [#612, #615]
+  * fix linetext2 unroll tail recursion to avoid stack level too deep [#609]
+  * fix for compilation with SSL on windows [#601]
+  * open file descriptors and sockets with O_CLOEXEC where possible [#298, #488, #591]
+  * fix SmtpClient: send second EHLO after STARTTLS. [#589]
+  * fix nul-terminated strings in C, use StringValueCStr instead of StringValuePtr
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun 12 08:59:04 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/rubygem-eventmachine.spec b/rubygem-eventmachine.spec
index 58f0f40..ebe05dc 100644
--- a/rubygem-eventmachine.spec
+++ b/rubygem-eventmachine.spec
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #
 
 Name:           rubygem-eventmachine
-Version:        1.0.7
+Version:        1.0.8
 Release:        0
 %define mod_name eventmachine
 %define mod_full_name %{mod_name}-%{version}
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 # /MANUAL
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-BuildRequires:  ruby-macros >= 5
 BuildRequires:  %{rubydevel}
 BuildRequires:  %{rubygem gem2rpm}
 BuildRequires:  %{rubygem rdoc > 3.10}
+BuildRequires:  ruby-macros >= 5
 Url:            http://rubyeventmachine.com
 Source:         http://rubygems.org/gems/%{mod_full_name}.gem
 Source1:        rubygem-eventmachine-rpmlintrc