diff --git a/moe-1.8.tar.lz b/moe-1.8.tar.lz
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/moe-1.8.tar.lz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:7eff4ef2197d8febec99ad4efd4e277b1f3b7d4660f75e3b42b8818bc6bb6457
-size 79396
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/moe-1.9.tar.lz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:18919e9ffae08f34d8beb3a26fc5a595614e0aff34866e79420ca81881ff4ef3
+size 82046
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diff --git a/moe.changes b/moe.changes
index c5484d4..3035e20 100644
--- a/moe.changes
+++ b/moe.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 19 13:11:50 UTC 2018 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Ensure neutrality of description.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Mar 18 23:16:55 UTC 2018 - avindra@opensuse.org
+
+- GNU moe 1.9:
+  * rc.cc: Load recursively all regular files in each directory
+    passed in the command line.
+  * Added a new help key 'C-a'.
+  * encoding.cc: UTF-8 decoder now converts some more characters.
+  * buffer_handle.h (Buffer_handle): Adjust '+line,col' for tabs.
+  * set_to_matching_delimiter: Skip delimiters inside /**/ comments.
+  * Added 'N' command to the basic less emulation.
+  * rc.cc (process_options): Don't use stdin more than once.
+  * window_vector.cc (remove_duplicate_lines): Run 20% faster.
+  * Cut long filenames in messages like "File '...filename' saved".
+  * Set an 8-bit "C" locale in Cygwin to show chars > 127.
+  * configure: Avoid warning on some shells when testing for g++.
+  * Makefile.in: Detect the existence of install-info.
+- cleanup with spec-cleaner
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jul 10 17:19:05 UTC 2016 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/moe.keyring b/moe.keyring
index c9f42c8..7cb53a5 100644
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diff --git a/moe.spec b/moe.spec
index 25717b7..95b9681 100644
--- a/moe.spec
+++ b/moe.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package moe
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 
 
 Name:           moe
-Version:        1.8
+Version:        1.9
 Release:        0
-Summary:        Powerful and User-friendly Text Editor
-License:        GPL-2.0+
+Summary:        A Text Editor
+License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 Group:          Productivity/Text/Editors
 Url:            https://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html
 Source:         https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.lz
@@ -34,16 +34,15 @@ BuildRequires:  make
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
 Requires(post): %{install_info_prereq}
 Requires(preun): %{install_info_prereq}
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
-GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, console text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII
-character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface, online help,
+GNU Moe is an 8-bit clean, console text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII
+character encodings. It has a modeless interface, online help,
 multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited line length, global
 search/replace (on all buffers at once), block operations, automatic
 indentation, word wrapping, file name completion, directory browser, duplicate
 removal from prompt histories, delimiter matching, text conversion from/to
-UTF-8, romanization, etc.
+UTF-8 and romanization.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ UTF-8, romanization, etc.
 make %{?_smp_mflags} CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 
 %install
-make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install %{?_smp_mflags} install-man
+%make_install install-man
 
 %post
 %install_info --info-dir=%{_infodir} %{_infodir}/moe.info%{ext_info}
@@ -62,11 +61,11 @@ make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install %{?_smp_mflags} install-man
 %install_info_delete --info-dir=%{_infodir} %{_infodir}/moe.info%{ext_info}
 
 %files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README
+%license COPYING
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/moerc
 %{_bindir}/moe
-%{_infodir}/moe.info%{ext_info}
-%{_mandir}/man1/moe.1%{ext_man}
+%{_infodir}/moe.info%{?ext_info}
+%{_mandir}/man1/moe.1%{?ext_man}
 
 %changelog