diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2fb7aa6..4c71b78 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ Babel-0.9.5.tar.gz
 /Babel-2.3.4.tar.gz
 /Babel-2.5.1.tar.gz
 /Babel-2.6.0.tar.gz
+/Babel-2.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/babel-2.3.4-remove-pytz-version.patch b/babel-2.3.4-remove-pytz-version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9025179..0000000
--- a/babel-2.3.4-remove-pytz-version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -up Babel-2.3.4/setup.py.orig Babel-2.3.4/setup.py
---- Babel-2.3.4/setup.py.orig	2016-04-11 11:58:25.000000000 +0200
-+++ Babel-2.3.4/setup.py	2016-04-25 13:35:54.458765892 +0200
-@@ -59,7 +59,10 @@ setup(
-         # This version identifier is currently necessary as
-         # pytz otherwise does not install on pip 1.4 or
-         # higher.
--        'pytz>=0a',
-+        ### But the version confuses setuptools 8 and higher so remove it in the
-+        ### system package
-+        #'pytz>=0a',
-+        'pytz',
-     ],
- 
-     cmdclass={'import_cldr': import_cldr},
diff --git a/babel.spec b/babel.spec
index 58567e7..acb2c89 100644
--- a/babel.spec
+++ b/babel.spec
@@ -12,14 +12,13 @@
 %global with_python2 1
 
 Name:           babel
-Version:        2.6.0
-Release:        6%{?dist}
+Version:        2.7.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Tools for internationalizing Python applications
 
 License:        BSD
 URL:            http://babel.pocoo.org/
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/B/%{srcname}/%{srcname}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         babel-2.3.4-remove-pytz-version.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -164,6 +163,9 @@ export TZ=America/New_York
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon May 27 2019 Felix Schwarz <fschwarz@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.0-1
+- update to upstream version 2.7.0
+
 * Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.6.0-6
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index edd9f7c..e4bbad5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Babel-2.6.0.tar.gz) = a87f26c25f1e48a64d1e7ee112bc0c325a6268e0e716a81cb6814a53f0add8f3d579babd2ba064f160298ebe3ac9711aa5d28f112582ee287767b6ed8427b6e0
+SHA512 (Babel-2.7.0.tar.gz) = 96314c7b26f6915a825e0344fa06e4f1d9a71b97a52b16f2f696c2e81c69318974547620135912b11edb95668a717ec49f1be68eef5a4753092d8e4cdc39a1e5