diff --git a/param-1.6.1.tar.gz b/param-1.6.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index c232030..0000000
--- a/param-1.6.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:9a41e6fc6ff48f6a0c0403e97b500d7788f11c5b06278c93f3265510d5445115
-size 54805
diff --git a/python-param.changes b/python-param.changes
index e120b39..366119e 100644
--- a/python-param.changes
+++ b/python-param.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 17 08:51:50 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Switch to github tarball and enable tests.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 16 16:11:19 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
+
+- specfile:
+  * remove devel requirement
+
+- update to version 1.7.0:
+  * A new param namespace object, which in future will allow
+    subclasses of Parameterized to have much cleaner namespaces
+    (#230).
+  * Started testing on python 3.7-dev (#223).
+  * param.version now provides functions to simplify dependants'
+    setup.py/setup.cfg files (see pyviz/autover#49).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri May 11 23:11:13 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/python-param.spec b/python-param.spec
index 251388d..686a073 100644
--- a/python-param.spec
+++ b/python-param.spec
@@ -18,14 +18,15 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-param
-Version:        1.6.1
+Version:        1.7.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Declarative Python programming using Parameters
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            http://ioam.github.com/param/
-Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/param/param-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
+Source0:        https://github.com/ioam/param/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module nose}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module numpy}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ as part of other projects.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n param-%{version}
+sed -i -e 's:version=get_setup_version("param"):version="%{version}":g' setup.py
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -54,6 +56,9 @@ as part of other projects.
 %python_install
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
+%check
+%python_expand nosetests-%{$python_bin_suffix}
+
 %files %{python_files}
 %license LICENSE.txt
 %doc README.rst
diff --git a/v1.7.0.tar.gz b/v1.7.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b1bbc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.7.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:324c97d35ba3c62bc1ac3057991604fbb18c04c6ebcbe5e8d1b6d61bf5ec3bc7
+size 86550