diff --git a/vttest-20091231.tgz b/vttest-20091231.tgz
deleted file mode 100644
index 36c9045..0000000
--- a/vttest-20091231.tgz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:8e1424c0ef0fae816d3c7ff277005ef13a6337d9178414447f6c877974bb4f4d
-size 156636
diff --git a/vttest-20120506.tgz b/vttest-20120506.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ace75e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vttest-20120506.tgz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:9c03e8e917ab5b06f934c45923dd00a5943c6b36f0a32c38392f8f864d6b39e4
+size 183236
diff --git a/vttest-20120506.tgz.asc b/vttest-20120506.tgz.asc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2353073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vttest-20120506.tgz.asc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
+Comment: See http://invisible-island.net/public/public.html for info
+
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+=5dbV
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diff --git a/xterm-278.tar.bz2 b/xterm-278.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index cc681b5..0000000
--- a/xterm-278.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:80b746f52efd160f33d8042f165a5857e4139b26a26334385efec5ee803d6a52
-size 839758
diff --git a/xterm-279.tgz b/xterm-279.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13fbb5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xterm-279.tgz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:350e112f522c90ba0e6c4659001fe46725c2636a9148ed5f0dc495f813cf6278
+size 1009821
diff --git a/xterm-279.tgz.asc b/xterm-279.tgz.asc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c670de0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xterm-279.tgz.asc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
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diff --git a/xterm.changes b/xterm.changes
index 9e7cb4f..e4e106b 100644
--- a/xterm.changes
+++ b/xterm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun May 13 00:49:13 UTC 2012 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Update to new upstream release 279
+* add support for VT420/VT520 left/right margins and related
+  origin-mode
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb 18 11:30:58 CET 2012 - meissner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/xterm.spec b/xterm.spec
index 074d967..13e9bf9 100644
--- a/xterm.spec
+++ b/xterm.spec
@@ -38,19 +38,23 @@ BuildRequires:  XFree86-libs
 BuildRequires:  xaw3d
 %endif
 Url:            http://invisible-island.net/xterm/
-Provides:       xorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm XFree86:/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
-Version:        278
+Provides:       XFree86:/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
+Provides:       xorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
+Version:        279
 Release:        0
 Summary:        The basic X terminal program
 License:        MIT
 Group:          System/X11/Utilities
-Source:         ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/%name-%version.tar.bz2
+Source:         ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/%name-%version.tgz
+Source2:        ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/%name-%version.tgz.asc
 Source1:        luitx
 Source3:        Backarrow2Delete
 Source4:        Backarrow2BackSpace
 Source5:        README.SuSE
 Source6:        terminal.png
-Source7:        vttest-20091231.tgz
+%define vttest_version 20120506
+Source7:        ftp://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest-%vttest_version.tgz
+Source10:       ftp://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest-%vttest_version.tgz.asc
 Source8:        20x20ja.bdf.bz2
 Source9:        20x20ko.bdf.bz2
 # Snoop for the escape sequence assignment of the keypad
@@ -109,7 +113,7 @@ bunzip2 *.bdf.bz2
 
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
-pushd ../vttest-20091231
+pushd "../vttest-%vttest_version"
 %configure
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ popd
 if [ ! which bdftopcf ] ; then exit 1; fi
 for i in *.bdf
 do
-    bdftopcf $i | gzip -9 > `basename $i .bdf`.pcf.gz
+    bdftopcf "$i" | gzip -9 >"${i%.bdf}.pcf.gz"
 done
 
 %install
@@ -127,7 +131,7 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{xterminfo}
 install -m 644 terminfo $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{xterminfo}/xterm.terminfo
 install -m 644 termcap  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{xterminfo}/xterm.termcap
 
-pushd ../vttest-20091231
+pushd "../vttest-%vttest_version"
     make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 popd
 install -m 755 $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/luitx $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
@@ -149,9 +153,6 @@ install -m 644 *.pcf.gz $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{xfontsd}/misc/
 %postun
 %run_suseconfig_fonts
 
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc README README.i18n README.SuSE