diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fac7114..02a416a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 PyYAML-3.09.tar.gz
 /PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
 /PyYAML-3.11.tar.gz
+/PyYAML-3.12.tar.gz
diff --git a/PyYAML.spec b/PyYAML.spec
index ff6b50f..60444fd 100644
--- a/PyYAML.spec
+++ b/PyYAML.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           PyYAML
-Version:        3.11
-Release:        13%{?dist}
+Version:        3.12
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        YAML parser and emitter for Python
 
 Group:          Development/Libraries
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ BuildRequires: python3-devel
 BuildRequires: python3-setuptools
 BuildRequires: python3-Cython
 %endif
-# debian patch, upstream ticket http://pyyaml.org/ticket/247 and
-# https://bitbucket.org/xi/pyyaml/issue/35/test-fails-on-be-s390-x-ppc64
-Patch0: debian-big-endian-fix.patch
-
-# CVE-2014-9130 assert failure when processing wrapped strings
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204829
-Patch1: PyYAML-CVE-2014-9130.patch
 
 %description
 YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and
@@ -70,11 +63,8 @@ configuration files to object serialization and persistance.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1 -b .be
 chmod a-x examples/yaml-highlight/yaml_hl.py
 
-%patch1 -p1
-
 # remove pre-generated file
 rm -rf ext/_yaml.c
 
@@ -131,6 +121,9 @@ popd
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 29 2016 John Eckersberg <eck@redhat.com> - 3.12-1
+- New upstream release 3.12 (RHBZ#1371150)
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.11-13
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 86506a0..a74856a 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f50e08ef0fe55178479d3a618efe21db  PyYAML-3.11.tar.gz
+4c129761b661d181ebf7ff4eb2d79950  PyYAML-3.12.tar.gz