diff --git a/python-rarfile.changes b/python-rarfile.changes
index b554400..418a456 100644
--- a/python-rarfile.changes
+++ b/python-rarfile.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 12 14:42:46 UTC 2016 - aloisio@gmx.com
+
+- Update to version 2.8
+  *  Fix: support solid archives from in-memory file object. 
+     Full archive will be written out to temp file. [#21]
+  *  Fix: ask unrar stop switches scanning, to handle archive 
+     names starting with "-". (Alexander Shadchin) [#12]
+  *  Fix: add missing _parse_error variable to RarFile object. 
+     (Gregory Mazzola) [#20]
+  *  Fix: return proper boolean from 
+     :meth:`RarInfo.needs_password`. [#22]
+  *  Fix: do not insert non-string rarfile into exception 
+     string. (Tim Muller) [#23]
+  *  Fix: make :meth:`RarFile.extract` and 
+     :meth:`RarFile.testrar` support in-memory archives.
+  *  Use cryptography module as preferred crypto backend. 
+     PyCrypto will be used as fallback.
+  *  Cleanup: remove compat code for Python 2.4/2.5/2.6.
+
+- Switched to bsdtar and made unrar dependency optional
+
+- Changed source URL
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 25 15:00:53 UTC 2016 - aloisio@gmx.com
 
diff --git a/python-rarfile.spec b/python-rarfile.spec
index 2ef40ef..7e3b7ff 100644
--- a/python-rarfile.spec
+++ b/python-rarfile.spec
@@ -17,16 +17,17 @@
 
 
 Name:           python-rarfile
-Version:        2.7
+Version:        2.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        RAR Archive Reader for Python
 License:        ISC
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            https://rarfile.readthedocs.org/
-Source0:        http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/rarfile/rarfile-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/r/rarfile/rarfile-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  python-Sphinx
 BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
-Requires:       unrar
+Requires:       bsdtar
+Recommends:     unrar
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if  0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
diff --git a/rarfile-2.7.tar.gz b/rarfile-2.7.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 9021bc4..0000000
--- a/rarfile-2.7.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:47148088ddb6c020774f4c38927fec9625ca33651bdc551bdaeafc78690b1635
-size 37515
diff --git a/rarfile-2.8.tar.gz b/rarfile-2.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa0bb88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rarfile-2.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:2a27e401daa6d8ff0df1112a274a3661ca3e4afaac626217506fb1391069ca61
+size 38204