diff --git a/blosc-1.2.7.tar.gz b/blosc-1.2.7.tar.gz
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index a957372..0000000
--- a/blosc-1.2.7.tar.gz
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-oid sha256:820a1888201c700081741b78450f226f14e3fe0a612976abd222d5a374a88c4e
-size 239792
diff --git a/blosc-1.2.8.tar.gz b/blosc-1.2.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..165daa2
--- /dev/null
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+oid sha256:fc8996733de73d70cc2482f98972a38a908ca7286d30429fe828390b1bb010c3
+size 259299
diff --git a/python-blosc.changes b/python-blosc.changes
index 1600566..996ff19 100644
--- a/python-blosc.changes
+++ b/python-blosc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Mar 10 19:48:59 UTC 2016 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Update to version 1.2.8
+  * Updated to c-blosc v1.7.0. However, the new bitshuffle filter
+    has not been made public because recent reports indicate that
+    it seems too green for production.
+  * Support bytes-like objects that support the buffer interface 
+    as input to compress and decompress. On Python 2.x this
+    includes unicode, on Python 3.x it doesn't. (#80 #94 @esc)
+  * Fix a memory leak in decompress. Added tests to catch memory
+    leaks. (#102 #103 #104 @sdvillal)
+  * Various miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May 19 12:15:06 UTC 2015 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-blosc.spec b/python-blosc.spec
index 838e5c8..ec2e713 100644
--- a/python-blosc.spec
+++ b/python-blosc.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-blosc
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2016 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
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@
 #
 
 
-%define modname blosc
 Name:           python-blosc
-Version:        1.2.7
+Version:        1.2.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Blosc data compressor for Python
 License:        MIT
@@ -28,7 +27,10 @@ Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/blosc/blosc-%{version}.
 BuildRequires:  blosc-devel
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  python-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
+BuildRequires:  python-numpy-devel
 Requires:       blosc-devel
+Requires:       python-numpy
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}