diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d456d29..3843a9b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ commons-io-2.1-src.tar.gz
 /commons-io-2.3-src.tar.gz
 /commons-io-2.4-src.tar.gz
 /commons-io-2.5-src.tar.gz
+/commons-io-2.6-src.tar.gz
diff --git a/apache-commons-io.spec b/apache-commons-io.spec
index 268027a..dd62ba9 100644
--- a/apache-commons-io.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-io.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           apache-commons-io
-Version:        2.5
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        2.6
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Epoch:          1
 Summary:        Utilities to assist with developing IO functionality
 License:        ASL 2.0
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' *.txt
 %mvn_file  : commons-io %{name}
 %mvn_alias : org.apache.commons:
 
-%mvn_build
+# FIXME: tests skipped because commons-io is on surefire's classpath and causes
+# tests to be run against the system version and not the one we just built
+%mvn_build -f
 
 %install
 %mvn_install
@@ -44,6 +46,9 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' *.txt
 %doc LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 22 2017 Michael Simacek <msimacek@redhat.com> - 1:2.6-1
+- Update to upstream version 2.6
+
 * Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1:2.5-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 43bb49f..3dc47d1 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-67ce68ad2b617a92f90c8a8242a4b93b  commons-io-2.5-src.tar.gz
+SHA512 (commons-io-2.6-src.tar.gz) = fa22397631283726b85276d8fb367e10755351ef2c4c87c5519485ba68ab26ffa2bfe36ee686f53f82e3aeb9e423618d89ad97b02fb272a549e0d4769928e764