diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2987a6f..0d344dd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ apr-1.3.9.tar.bz2
 /apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2
 /apr-1.6.2.tar.bz2
 /apr-1.6.3.tar.bz2
+/apr-1.6.5.tar.bz2
diff --git a/apr-rh1539844.patch b/apr-rh1539844.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 15178af..0000000
--- a/apr-rh1539844.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur apr-1.6.3.orig/test/teststr.c apr-1.6.3/test/teststr.c
---- apr-1.6.3.orig/test/teststr.c	2016-03-03 17:11:16.000000000 +0100
-+++ apr-1.6.3/test/teststr.c	2018-01-29 18:54:44.748931098 +0100
-@@ -307,10 +307,15 @@
-     for (; off < 999999999; off += 999) {
-         apr_strfsize(off, buf);
-     }
--    for (off = 1; off < LONG_MAX && off > 0; off *= 2) {
-+
-+    off = 1;
-+    while (1) {
-         apr_strfsize(off, buf);
-         apr_strfsize(off + 1, buf);
-         apr_strfsize(off - 1, buf);
-+        if (off > LONG_MAX / 2)
-+            break;
-+        off *= 2;
-     }
- 
-     ABTS_ASSERT(tc, "strfsize overflowed", buf[5] == '$');
diff --git a/apr.spec b/apr.spec
index 4b7a73e..75264ec 100644
--- a/apr.spec
+++ b/apr.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 
 Summary: Apache Portable Runtime library
 Name: apr
-Version: 1.6.3
-Release: 9%{?dist}
+Version: 1.6.5
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 # ASL 2.0: everything
 # ISC: network_io/apr-1.4.6/network_io/unix/inet_?to?.c
 # BSD with advertising: strings/apr_snprintf.c, strings/apr_fnmatch.c,
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Patch1: apr-1.6.3-r1834495.patch
 Patch2: apr-1.2.2-locktimeout.patch
 Patch3: apr-1.2.2-libdir.patch
 Patch4: apr-1.2.7-pkgconf.patch
-Patch5: apr-rh1539844.patch
 BuildRequires: gcc, autoconf, libtool, libuuid-devel, python3
 # To enable SCTP support
 BuildRequires: lksctp-tools-devel
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ C data structures and routines.
 %patch2 -p1 -b .locktimeout
 %patch3 -p1 -b .libdir
 %patch4 -p1 -b .pkgconf
-%patch5 -p1 -b .rh1539844
 
 %build
 # regenerate configure script etc.
@@ -131,6 +129,9 @@ popd
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/*.m4
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Sep 17 2018 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 1.6.5-1
+- update to 1.6.5 (#1628934)
+
 * Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.3-9
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6e21b2b..1c9ca67 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (apr-1.6.3.tar.bz2) = f6b8679ae7fafff793c825c78775c84a646267c441710a50664589850e13148719b4eab48ab6e7c95b7aed085cff831115687434a7b160dcc2faa0eae63ac996
+SHA512 (apr-1.6.5.tar.bz2) = d3511e320457b5531f565813e626e7941f6b82864852db6aa03dd298a65dbccdcdc4bd580f5314f8be45d268388edab25efe88cf8340b7d2897a4dbe9d0a41fc