diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3f84b6f..794cc99 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
+/bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/bzip2-1.0.4-bzip2recover.patch b/bzip2-1.0.4-bzip2recover.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e2bfe1c..0000000
--- a/bzip2-1.0.4-bzip2recover.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- bzip2-1.0.4/bzip2recover.c.pom	2007-01-03 03:00:55.000000000 +0100
-+++ bzip2-1.0.4/bzip2recover.c	2007-02-05 11:55:17.000000000 +0100
-@@ -309,7 +309,8 @@
-    UInt32      buffHi, buffLo, blockCRC;
-    Char*       p;
- 
--   strcpy ( progName, argv[0] );
-+   strncpy ( progName, argv[0], BZ_MAX_FILENAME-1);
-+   progName[BZ_MAX_FILENAME-1]='\0';
-    inFileName[0] = outFileName[0] = 0;
- 
-    fprintf ( stderr, 
diff --git a/bzip2-1.0.4-cflags.patch b/bzip2-cflags.patch
similarity index 68%
rename from bzip2-1.0.4-cflags.patch
rename to bzip2-cflags.patch
index 209d738..992abbf 100644
--- a/bzip2-1.0.4-cflags.patch
+++ b/bzip2-cflags.patch
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ diff -up bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so.pom bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so
        bzlib.o
  
  all: $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
- 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
+-	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
+ 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
  	rm -f libbz2.so.1.0
- 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so.1.0
+ 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.8 libbz2.so.1.0
diff --git a/bzip2-ldflags.patch b/bzip2-ldflags.patch
index 2281262..53c6ecc 100644
--- a/bzip2-ldflags.patch
+++ b/bzip2-ldflags.patch
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ diff -up bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so.jx bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so
        bzlib.o
  
  all: $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
  	rm -f libbz2.so.1.0
- 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so.1.0
+ 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.8 libbz2.so.1.0
  
diff --git a/bzip2-1.0.4-saneso.patch b/bzip2-saneso.patch
similarity index 59%
rename from bzip2-1.0.4-saneso.patch
rename to bzip2-saneso.patch
index 6b3430c..ec76a4c 100644
--- a/bzip2-1.0.4-saneso.patch
+++ b/bzip2-saneso.patch
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ diff -up bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so.pom bzip2-1.0.6/Makefile-libbz2_so
        bzlib.o
  
  all: $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
-+	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.6 $(OBJS)
- 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.6
+-	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
+ 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
  	rm -f libbz2.so.1.0
- 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.6 libbz2.so.1.0
+ 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.8 libbz2.so.1.0
diff --git a/bzip2.spec b/bzip2.spec
index 3e7a385..6109178 100644
--- a/bzip2.spec
+++ b/bzip2.spec
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
-%global library_version 1.0.6
+%global library_version 1.0.8
 
 Summary: A file compression utility
 Name: bzip2
-Version: 1.0.6
-Release: 30%{?dist}
+Version: 1.0.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 URL: http://www.bzip.org/
-Source0: http://www.bzip.org/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+#Source0: http://www.bzip.org/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0: https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1: bzip2.pc
 
-Patch0: bzip2-1.0.4-saneso.patch
-Patch1: bzip2-1.0.4-cflags.patch
-# resolves: #226979
-Patch2: bzip2-1.0.4-bzip2recover.patch
-Patch3: bzip2-ldflags.patch
-# resolves: #1348179
-Patch4: set-out-file-to-null.patch
+Patch0: bzip2-saneso.patch
+Patch1: bzip2-cflags.patch
+Patch2: bzip2-ldflags.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gcc
 
@@ -55,11 +52,9 @@ Static libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1 -b .saneso
-%patch1 -p1 -b .cflags
-%patch2 -p1 -b .bz2recover
-%patch3 -p1 -b .ldflags
-%patch4 -p1 -b .bzip2recover
+%patch0 -p1
+%patch1 -p1
+%patch2 -p1
 
 cp -a %{SOURCE1} .
 sed -i "s|^libdir=|libdir=%{_libdir}|" bzip2.pc
@@ -138,6 +133,11 @@ ln -s bzgrep.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1/bzfgrep.1
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/bzip2.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Aug 06 2019 Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com> - 1.0.8-1
+- Update to version 1.0.8
+  resolves: #1724797
+  resolves: #1717478 	
+
 * Wed Jul 24 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.6-30
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/set-out-file-to-null.patch b/set-out-file-to-null.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 18d193b..0000000
--- a/set-out-file-to-null.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -up ./bzip2recover.c.old ./bzip2recover.c
---- ./bzip2recover.c.old	2016-03-22 08:49:38.855620000 +0100
-+++ ./bzip2recover.c	2016-03-30 10:22:27.341430099 +0200
-@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ Int32 main ( Int32 argc, Char** argv )
-             bsPutUChar ( bsWr, 0x50 ); bsPutUChar ( bsWr, 0x90 );
-             bsPutUInt32 ( bsWr, blockCRC );
-             bsClose ( bsWr );
-+            outFile = NULL;
-          }
-          if (wrBlock >= rbCtr) break;
-          wrBlock++;
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3e55e9f..3aca83c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-00b516f4704d4a7cb50a1d97e6e8e15b  bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
+SHA512 (bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz) = 083f5e675d73f3233c7930ebe20425a533feedeaaa9d8cc86831312a6581cefbe6ed0d08d2fa89be81082f2a5abdabca8b3c080bf97218a1bd59dc118a30b9f3