diff --git a/apache-commons-chain.changes b/apache-commons-chain.changes
index 2cbfdd7..7064ebf 100644
--- a/apache-commons-chain.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-chain.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 21 20:58:36 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Build against commons-digester >= 1.8
+- Removed patch:
+  * commons-chain-1.2-digester.patch
+    + not needed when building with commons-digester >= 1.8
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 21 16:03:07 UTC 2018 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-chain.spec b/apache-commons-chain.spec
index 6cf4a4e..0939d30 100644
--- a/apache-commons-chain.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-chain.spec
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ Source0:        http://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/%{base_name}/source/%{sho
 Patch0:         %{name}-%{version}-tests-servlet31.patch
 # javax.portlet 2.0 api support
 Patch1:         %{name}-%{version}-portlet20.patch
-# Fix build with older jakarta-commons-digester
-Patch2:         commons-chain-1.2-digester.patch
 # Do not fetch dependencies during the build
 Patch3:         commons-chain-1.2-getdeps.patch
 # javax.servlet 4.0 api support
@@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ BuildRequires:  ant-junit
 BuildRequires:  apache-commons-collections
 BuildRequires:  apache-commons-parent
 BuildRequires:  commons-beanutils
-BuildRequires:  commons-digester
+BuildRequires:  commons-digester >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  commons-logging
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  javapackages-local
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ BuildRequires:  portlet-1.0-api
 BuildRequires:  tomcat-servlet-4.0-api
 Requires:       apache-commons-parent
 Requires:       commons-beanutils
-Requires:       commons-digester
+Requires:       commons-digester >= 1.8
 Requires:       commons-logging
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -90,7 +88,6 @@ sed -i 's/\r$//g;' *.txt
 
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1
-%patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch4 -p1
 
diff --git a/commons-chain-1.2-digester.patch b/commons-chain-1.2-digester.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fd5ac5..0000000
--- a/commons-chain-1.2-digester.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- commons-chain-1.2-src/src/java/org/apache/commons/chain/config/ConfigParser.java	2008-05-29 18:43:15.000000000 +0200
-+++ commons-chain-1.2-src/src/java/org/apache/commons/chain/config/ConfigParser.java	2018-12-21 16:03:07.675014800 +0100
-@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
- package org.apache.commons.chain.config;
- 
- 
-+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
- import java.net.URL;
- import org.apache.commons.chain.Catalog;
- import org.apache.commons.digester.Digester;
-@@ -164,7 +164,11 @@
-         digester.push(catalog);
- 
-         // Parse the configuration document
--        digester.parse(url);
-+		try {
-+          digester.parse(url.toURI().toString());
-+		} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
-+		  throw new Exception(e);
-+		}
- 
-     }
- 
-@@ -187,7 +191,11 @@
-         digester.clear();
- 
-         // Parse the configuration document
--        digester.parse(url);
-+		try {
-+          digester.parse(url.toURI().toString());
-+		} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
-+		  throw new Exception(e);
-+		}
- 
-     }
-