diff --git a/xapian-core-1.2.7.tar.gz b/xapian-core-1.2.7.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index bf6133b..0000000
--- a/xapian-core-1.2.7.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:6ce8cb3502f35245ec0cb0dcf579ce4f65c015a2f2e8d1b4c388c95f58278c89
-size 4069085
diff --git a/xapian-core-1.2.8.tar.gz b/xapian-core-1.2.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68ee16b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xapian-core-1.2.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:00411ebac66a5592b87fc57ccfeb234c84b929ed23c185befb5df9929df3d4f9
+size 4106342
diff --git a/xapian-core.changes b/xapian-core.changes
index 1fd4b1e..5b877b7 100644
--- a/xapian-core.changes
+++ b/xapian-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec 29 11:31:53 CET 2011 - dmueller@suse.de
+
+- update to 1.2.8:
+  * Add support to TermGenerator and QueryParser for indexing and searching CJK
+  text using n-grams.  Currently this is only enabled when the environmental
+  variable XAPIAN_CJK_NGRAM is set to a non-empty value.
+  * overview.html,quickstart.html: Fix several factual errors.
+  * Improve documentation comments for several methods.
+  * Add documentation for function parameters which didn't have it.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 28 19:46:42 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/xapian-core.spec b/xapian-core.spec
index 1f31398..54a7631 100644
--- a/xapian-core.spec
+++ b/xapian-core.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package xapian-core
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -16,20 +16,20 @@
 #
 
 
-
 Name:           xapian-core
-Version:        1.2.7
-Release:        1
-License:        GPL-2.0
+Version:        1.2.8
+Release:        0
 Summary:        The Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library
-Url:            http://www.xapian.org/
+License:        GPL-2.0
 Group:          Productivity/Databases/Servers
+Url:            http://www.xapian.org/
 Source:         http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  libuuid-devel
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
-Requires:       %{name}-libs = %{version}
+Requires:       libxapian22 = %{version}
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ indexing and search facilities to applications
 %package -n libxapian22
 Summary:        Xapian search engine libraries
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
-Provides:       xapian-core-libs
 
 %description -n libxapian22
 Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval framework. It
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %makeinstall docdatadir=%{_docdir}/%{name}
-rm -rf examples/{.libs,.deps,.dirstamp,*.o,quest,delve,simplesearch,simpleexpand,simpleindex,copydatabase}
+rm -rf examples/{.libs,.deps,.dirstamp,*.o,quest,delve,simplesearch,simpleexpand,simpleindex,copydatabase,xapian-metadata}
 cp -vr examples  %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/
 find . -name \*.spec -delete
 install -m 644 AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL README NEWS HACKING PLATFORMS ChangeLog.examples %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}