diff --git a/python-simplejson.changes b/python-simplejson.changes
index 151299f..e996b77 100644
--- a/python-simplejson.changes
+++ b/python-simplejson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep  3 18:42:31 UTC 2012 - os-dev@jacraig.com
+
+- Update to 2.6.1:
+  * raw_decode() now skips whitespace before the object
+- Changes from 2.6.0:
+  * Error messages changed to match proposal for Python 3.3.1
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri May 25 12:26:32 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-simplejson.spec b/python-simplejson.spec
index 18a8944..6fab770 100644
--- a/python-simplejson.spec
+++ b/python-simplejson.spec
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 %define modname simplejson
 Name:           python-%{modname}
-Version:        2.5.2
+Version:        2.6.1
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://github.com/simplejson/simplejson
 Summary:        Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python
diff --git a/simplejson-2.5.2.tar.gz b/simplejson-2.5.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 83ffa9b..0000000
--- a/simplejson-2.5.2.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:196dbf614facc5f3e650cc38a18ab64c2df0b502ecf217cbd1c9d840133e70a4
-size 53009
diff --git a/simplejson-2.6.1.tar.gz b/simplejson-2.6.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57edbe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/simplejson-2.6.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+size 53180