diff --git a/slurm.changes b/slurm.changes
index c4890e3..74683c7 100644
--- a/slurm.changes
+++ b/slurm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 27 11:06:10 UTC 2019 - Christian Goll <cgoll@suse.com>
+
+- added the hdf5 job data gathering plugin 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb  1 19:27:10 UTC 2019 - eich@suse.com
 
diff --git a/slurm.spec b/slurm.spec
index db3854e..9a4513f 100644
--- a/slurm.spec
+++ b/slurm.spec
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ Recommends:     slurm-config-man = %{version}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  gtk2-devel
+BuildRequires:  hdf5-devel
 BuildRequires:  libbitmask-devel
 BuildRequires:  libcpuset-devel
 BuildRequires:  python
@@ -344,6 +345,15 @@ Group:          Documentation/Man
 %description config-man
 Man pages for the SLURM cluster managment software config files.
 
+%package hdf5
+Summary:        Store accounting data in hdf5
+Group:          Productivity/Clustering/Computing
+
+%description hdf5
+Plugin to store accounting in the hdf5 file format. This plugin has to be 
+activated in the slurm configuration. Includes also utility the program 
+sh5utils to merge this hdf5 files or extract data from them.
+
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{dl_ver}
 %patch0 -p1
@@ -971,4 +981,9 @@ exit 0
 %{_mandir}/man5/topology.*
 %{_mandir}/man5/knl.conf.5.*
 
+%files hdf5
+%{_bindir}/sh5util
+%{_libdir}/slurm/acct_gather_profile_hdf5.so
+%{_mandir}/man1/sh5util.1.gz
+
 %changelog