diff --git a/vym-2.8.0.tar.bz2 b/vym-2.8.0.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index eca5ff3..0000000
--- a/vym-2.8.0.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:612908044a89ee65b87f09fbc20200c018653c4d808028b9448a385dab48ce55
-size 8147914
diff --git a/vym-2.8.8.tar.bz2 b/vym-2.8.8.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5086785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vym-2.8.8.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:405b6d58ea4a201e7aa32f2b65c61d3bec50f914486d02394842bdd7f8f41f08
+size 8142944
diff --git a/vym.changes b/vym.changes
index e83ed43..bc5a4a4 100644
--- a/vym.changes
+++ b/vym.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug 17 09:29:43 UTC 2021 - Uwe Drechsel <vym@insilmaril.de>
+
+- Update to upstream version 2.8.8 (Bugfixes)
+
+  In 2.8.0 vymBaseDir was not set correctly, which made most of vym
+  unusable. See also https://github.com/insilmaril/vym/issues/14
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 15 08:04:13 UTC 2021 - Uwe Drechsel <vym@insilmaril.de>
 
diff --git a/vym.spec b/vym.spec
index 22665bf..0ad1aaf 100644
--- a/vym.spec
+++ b/vym.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           vym
-Version:        2.8.0
+Version:        2.8.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Tool to generate and manipulate thought maps
 License:        GPL-2.0-only