diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 549b4fb..2fb7aa6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ Babel-0.9.5.tar.gz
 /Babel-1.3.tar.gz
 /Babel-2.3.4.tar.gz
 /Babel-2.5.1.tar.gz
+/Babel-2.6.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/babel.spec b/babel.spec
index f736429..a5482eb 100644
--- a/babel.spec
+++ b/babel.spec
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 %global bootstrap 0
 
 Name:           babel
-Version:        2.5.1
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Version:        2.6.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Tools for internationalizing Python applications
 
 License:        BSD
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ export TZ=America/New_York
 %doc built-docs/html/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun 29 2018 Felix Schwarz <fschwarz@fedoraproject.org> - 2.6.0-1
+- update to upstream version 2.6.0
+
 * Mon Jun 18 2018 Tomas Orsava <torsava@redhat.com> - 2.5.1-5
 - Run tests in pytest (as declared in BuildRequires)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e114675..edd9f7c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Babel-2.5.1.tar.gz) = a2999bd75213bf2447079a210f774d49ae0d658476563ba5cdc4ddce8b58d4eb84bc70812d7e972923d1fa6283bc282b226a045db39ec65e2e95327d82271eb9
+SHA512 (Babel-2.6.0.tar.gz) = a87f26c25f1e48a64d1e7ee112bc0c325a6268e0e716a81cb6814a53f0add8f3d579babd2ba064f160298ebe3ac9711aa5d28f112582ee287767b6ed8427b6e0