diff --git a/ldap3-2.2.4.tar.gz b/ldap3-2.2.4.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index d0e0ab9..0000000
--- a/ldap3-2.2.4.tar.gz
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-size 332398
diff --git a/ldap3-2.3.tar.gz b/ldap3-2.3.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
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+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
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diff --git a/python-ldap3.changes b/python-ldap3.changes
index 98fed5a..6db5626 100644
--- a/python-ldap3.changes
+++ b/python-ldap3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,63 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Sep 30 16:37:55 UTC 2017 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- update to version 2.3:
+  * compatible with the pyasn1 library from version 0.1.8 up to latest
+    (0.3.1 for now) version
+  * MockAsync strategy is available
+  * added __ne__ method to Attribute in abstraction layer (thank
+    Rodrigo)
+  * added LDAPUserNameIsMandatoryError exception in simple bind when
+    user name is empty
+  * search referrals are properly decoded with fast decoder
+  * paged search works in mock strategies
+  * paged_search in extend.standard namespace raises an exception of
+    class LDAPOperationResult if the search returns an error
+  * search_paged() method of Cursor object now return the whole list
+    of entries if generator=False
+  * updated docs for defaults parameters (thanks Guarnacciaa)
+  * fixed mockBase for integer matching (thanks Jijo)
+  * boolean values are now uppercase in LDIF (thanks Linus)
+  * fixed timeout in ssl connection on Linux and Mac (thanks Allan)
+  * changed some internal functions to private in ldap3.utils.dn
+  * operational attribute entryDN is properly managed in Mock
+    strategies (thanks Mark)
+  * new rdn in renamed entry is properly set in Mock strategies
+    (thanks Mark)
+  * metrics are now updated for Mock strategies, except that for
+    received bytes (thanks joehy)
+  * better managing of missing schema from the server (thanks Deborah)
+  * fixed error while schema is not in string format (thanks
+    Alexandre)
+  * SNI support added when the underlying python library allows it
+    (thanks Edmund)
+  * added pool_keepalive parameter to Connection object for REUSABLE
+    strategy
+  * connection.extend.microsoft.modify_password returns False when
+    change is not successful (thanks Ashley)
+  * added validators for uuid and uuid_le
+  * fixed error while searching for bytes
+  * fixed pickling and unpickling of datetime values (thanks David)
+  * fixed error that resulted in valid generalizedTime strings not
+    being parsed (thanks Busuwe)
+  * fixed error with modify operation on referrals (thanks Busuwe)
+  * fixed error in mockBase add_entry() with raw rdn (thanks Chad)
+  * fixed error when stdin has not encoding in config.py (thanks
+    cronicryo)
+  * fixed error when optional field are not present in pyasn1 requests
+    (thanks Ilya)
+  * added DEFAULT_SERVER_ENCODING config parameter, should always be
+    utf-8
+  * DEFAULT_ENCODING config parameter renamed to
+    DEFAULT_CLIENT_ENCODING
+  * ADDITIONAL_ENCODINGS config parameter renamed to
+    ADDITIONAL_SERVER_ENCONDINGS
+  * additional encodings are applied to all data received from the
+    server
+  * additional encodings are not applied to client data
+  * added from_server=False parameter to to_unicode() to not try
+    client encoding while decoding data from server
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 10 09:04:31 UTC 2017 - michael@stroeder.com
 
diff --git a/python-ldap3.spec b/python-ldap3.spec
index d82f3d3..f4818ae 100644
--- a/python-ldap3.spec
+++ b/python-ldap3.spec
@@ -18,18 +18,18 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-ldap3
-Version:        2.2.4
+Version:        2.3
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A strictly RFC 4511 conforming LDAP V3 pure Python client
 License:        LGPL-3.0
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3
 Source:         https://pypi.io/packages/source/l/ldap3/ldap3-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyasn1 >= 0.1.8}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pyasn1 >= 0.1.8}
 Requires:       python-pyasn1 >= 0.1.8
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildArch:      noarch