diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index aada0c5..cc29f42 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /automake-1.15.1.tar.xz
+/automake-1.16.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/automake-1.15-dejagnu-testcase.patch b/automake-1.15-dejagnu-testcase.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3af46ad..0000000
--- a/automake-1.15-dejagnu-testcase.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-From 3b86722e504c686d3e825ca8870708cce7580190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:10:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix bug in dejagnu testcase
-
-This resolves testsuite error:
-ERROR: tcl error sourcing ./spanner.test/spanner.exp.
-ERROR: couldn't execute "./spanner": no such file or directory
-    while executing
-"spawn $SPANNER"
-    (file "./spanner.test/spanner.exp" line 2)
-    invoked from within
-"source ./spanner.test/spanner.exp"
-    ("uplevel" body line 1)
-    invoked from within
-"uplevel #0 source ./spanner.test/spanner.exp"
-    invoked from within
-"catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name""
-
-.. which was there probably for a very long time, but now with
-dejagnu 1.6 the runtest binary started to validly exit with
-non-zero status.
-
-* t/check12.sh (Makefile.am): Also distribute files from
-$(DEJATOOL) because otherwise 'runtest' binary fails later during
-'make distcheck' because of incomplete list of distributed files.
-
-Proposed upstream:
-http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/9941
-
----
- t/check12.sh | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/t/check12.sh b/t/check12.sh
-index 0f3928a..306c720 100644
---- a/t/check12.sh
-+++ b/t/check12.sh
-@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ DEJATOOL = hammer spanner
- AM_RUNTESTFLAGS = HAMMER=$(srcdir)/hammer SPANNER=$(srcdir)/spanner
- EXTRA_DIST += hammer.test/hammer.exp
- EXTRA_DIST += spanner.test/spanner.exp
-+EXTRA_DIST += $(DEJATOOL)
- END
- 
- cat > hammer << 'END'
--- 
-2.7.4
-
diff --git a/automake.spec b/automake.spec
index e4d8ffd..3c1e28c 100644
--- a/automake.spec
+++ b/automake.spec
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-%global api_version 1.15
+%global api_version 1.16
 
 # run "make check" by default
 %bcond_without check
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 Summary:    A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
 Name:       automake
 Version:    %{api_version}.1
-Release:    5%{?dist}
+Release:    1%{?dist}
 
 # docs ~> GFDL, sources ~> GPLv2+, mkinstalldirs ~> PD and install-sh ~> MIT
 License:    GPLv2+ and GFDL and Public Domain and MIT
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Source3:    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess
 
 %if %{with check} && !%{without automake_enables_optional_test}
 Patch0:     automake-1.15-disable-vala-tests.patch
-Patch1:     automake-1.15-dejagnu-testcase.patch
 %endif
 
 URL:        http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
@@ -130,6 +129,10 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 12 2018 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-1
+- latest upstream release, per
+  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-03/msg00019.html
+
 * Fri Feb 09 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.1-5
 - Escape macros in %%changelog
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4e5347d..76f26ea 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 SHA512 (automake-1.15.1.tar.xz) = 02f661b2676f1d44334ce1c7188f9913a6874bf46ba487708ad8090ad57905f14aead80fefed815e21effacfbb925e23b944ea7dd32563dca39c1a4174eda688
+SHA512 (automake-1.16.1.tar.xz) = 4013bd31f4903b10875caa7d6ac16a14623a4eb91aa758924dee5b990e234fb50848d131e2dbdbbbc32f89c41a14f9c52a0064c37aa6760c524d607b354b13c3