diff --git a/linbox-1.6.3.tar.gz b/linbox-1.6.3.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 7064d27..0000000
--- a/linbox-1.6.3.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 1968034
diff --git a/linbox-1.7.0.tar.gz b/linbox-1.7.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..270c358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linbox-1.7.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+oid sha256:6d2159fd395be0298362dd37f6c696676237bc8e2757341fbc46520e3b466bcc
+size 2258420
diff --git a/linbox.changes b/linbox.changes
index b25fb23..9fa0d40 100644
--- a/linbox.changes
+++ b/linbox.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec 14 11:25:03 UTC 2021 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 1.7.0
+  * New polynomial matrix API
+  * New FFT code for polynomial matrices
+  * Dixon solver refactorization
+  * Cleanup of BlasMatrixDomain with minor API changes
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep  5 12:03:25 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/linbox.spec b/linbox.spec
index fc29d72..ee54ebe 100644
--- a/linbox.spec
+++ b/linbox.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package linbox
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 Name:           linbox
 %define lname   liblinbox0
-Version:        1.6.3
+Version:        1.7.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        C++ library for computation with matrices over ints and finite fields
 License:        LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ LinBox is a C++ template library for exact, high-performance linear
 algebra computation with dense, sparse, and structured matrices over
 the integers and over finite fields.
 
-This subpackage contains the include files and library links for   
+This subpackage contains the include files and library links for
 developing against the Givaro library.
 
 %prep
@@ -83,8 +83,9 @@ autoreconf -fi
 	--disable-sse --disable-sse2 \
 %endif
 	--disable-sse3 --disable-ssse3 --disable-sse41 --disable-sse42 \
-	--disable-avx --disable-avx2 --disable-fma --disable-fma4
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+	--disable-avx --disable-avx2 --disable-fma --disable-fma4 \
+	--without-archnative
+%make_build
 
 %install
 %make_install