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deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/hugin-2018.0.0.tar.bz2 b/hugin-2018.0.0.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/hugin.changes b/hugin.changes
index d85bb95..f28b5ed 100644
--- a/hugin.changes
+++ b/hugin.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb  6 08:16:56 UTC 2018 - adrian@suse.de
+
+- update to version 2018.0.0
+  The version 2018.0 is mainly a bug fix release and introduce some minor new features.
+
+  Several improvements for optimizer tabs:
+  * mark deselected images
+  * allow changing optimizer variables for all selected images at once
+  * option to ignore line cp
+  * hugin_stacker: New tool to stack overlapping images with several
+    averaging modes (e.g. mean, median).
+  * Hugin: Added option to disable auto-rotation of images in control
+    point and mask editor.
+  * Nona, verdandi and hugin_stacker can now write BigTIFF images
+  * Added expression parser to GUI: This allows to manipulate several
+    image variables at once. (This is the same as running pto_var
+    --set from the command line.) This can be used e.g. to prealigns
+    the images in a given setup and then run cpfind --prealigned to
+    search control points only in overlapping images.
+  * Add user-defined assistant and expose it in the GUI. It allows
+    to set up different assistant strategies without the need to
+    recompiling. Provide also some examples (scanned images,
+    multi-row panoramas with orphaned images, single-shot panorama
+    cameras).
+- drop python dependencies
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb  1 09:37:01 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/hugin.spec b/hugin.spec
index 82b5b51..fcca1ed 100644
--- a/hugin.spec
+++ b/hugin.spec
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ BuildRequires:  liblcms2-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpano-devel >= 2.9.19
 BuildRequires:  libtiff-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxml2
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-wxWidgets >= 3
 BuildRequires:  sqlite3-devel
 BuildRequires:  swig
@@ -51,8 +50,8 @@ BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
 BuildRequires:  vigra-devel
 BuildRequires:  wxWidgets-devel >= 3
 BuildRequires:  zip
-%define mversion 2017.0
-Version:        2017.0.0
+%define mversion 2018.0
+Version:        2018.0.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Toolchain for Stitching of Images and Creating Panoramas
 License:        GPL-2.0+
@@ -116,7 +115,6 @@ cmake \
 	-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
 	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%{_prefix} -DLIB_SUFFIX=$LIB_SUFFIX \
 	-DENABLE_LAPACK=ON BUILD_HSI=ON \
-	-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2 \
 	..
 # parallel make kills our workers
 make VERBOSE=1 %{?_smp_mflags} -j1
@@ -161,7 +159,5 @@ chmod -x %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/*
 %dir %{_libdir}/hugin
 %{_libdir}/hugin/*.so.*
 %doc %{_mandir}/man?/*.*
-%{py_sitedir}/*hpi*
-%{py_sitedir}/*hsi*
 
 %changelog