diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 28488ef..4079eb0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /cronie-1.5.7.tar.gz
 /cronie-1.6.0.tar.gz
 /cronie-1.6.1.tar.gz
+/cronie-1.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/add_-n_option_for_crontab_entries.patch b/add_-n_option_for_crontab_entries.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 441c214..0000000
--- a/add_-n_option_for_crontab_entries.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,205 +0,0 @@
-From ce7d5bf0a43d147f8502e6424cd523b56adf5599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Poho=C5=99elsk=C3=BD?= <opohorel@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:51:41 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Add -n option for crontab entries
-
-The -n option causes no mail to be sent
-when the command finishes successfully.
-
-These kind of options are already supported in *BSD;
-in fact, this is a port of a patch from NetBSD [1].
-
-This was requested in [2].
-
-[1]: NetBSD/src@666eac5
-[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591763
----
- src/do_command.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
- src/entry.c      | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- src/funcs.h      |  1 +
- src/popen.c      | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
- src/structs.h    |  1 +
- 5 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/do_command.c b/src/do_command.c
-index 87f996f..6a3886a 100644
---- a/src/do_command.c
-+++ b/src/do_command.c
-@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static int child_process(entry * e, char **jobenv) {
- 	char mailfrom_expanded[MAX_EMAILSTR];
- 	int children = 0;
- 	pid_t pid = getpid();
-+	pid_t jobpid = -1;
- 	struct sigaction sa;
- 
- 	/* Ignore SIGPIPE as we will be writing to pipes and do not want to terminate
-@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ static int child_process(entry * e, char **jobenv) {
- 
- 	/* fork again, this time so we can exec the user's command.
- 	 */
--	switch (fork()) {
-+	switch (jobpid = fork()) {
- 	case -1:
- 		log_it("CRON", pid, "CAN'T FORK", "child_process", errno);
- 		return ERROR_EXIT;
-@@ -552,10 +553,35 @@ static int child_process(entry * e, char **jobenv) {
- 				}
- #endif
- 			}
--			/* only close pipe if we opened it -- i.e., we're
--			 * mailing...
-+			/* if -n option was specified, abort the sending
-+			 * now when we read all of the command output
-+			 * and thus can wait for it's exit status
- 			 */
-+			if (mail && e->flags & MAIL_WHEN_ERR) {
-+				int jobstatus = -1;
-+				if (jobpid > 0) {
-+					while (waitpid(jobpid, &jobstatus, WNOHANG) == -1) {
-+						if (errno == EINTR) continue;
-+						log_it("CRON", getpid(), "error", "invalid job pid", errno);
-+						break;
-+					}
-+				} else {
-+					log_it("CRON", getpid(), "error", "invalid job pid", 0);
-+				}
- 
-+				/* if everything went well, -n is set, and we have mail,
-+				 * we won't be mailing – so shoot the messenger!
-+				 */
-+				if (WIFEXITED(jobstatus) && WEXITSTATUS(jobstatus) == EXIT_SUCCESS) {
-+					Debug(DPROC, ("[%ld] aborting pipe to mail\n", (long)getpid()));
-+					status = cron_pabort(mail);
-+					mail = NULL;
-+				}
-+			}
-+
-+			/* only close pipe if we opened it -- i.e., we're (still)
-+			 * mailing...
-+			 */
- 			if (mail) {
- 				Debug(DPROC, ("[%ld] closing pipe to mail\n", (long) getpid()));
- 					/* Note: the pclose will probably see
-diff --git a/src/entry.c b/src/entry.c
-index bb7cb62..9e199fe 100644
---- a/src/entry.c
-+++ b/src/entry.c
-@@ -417,6 +417,37 @@ entry *load_entry(FILE * file, void (*error_func) (), struct passwd *pw,
- 
- 	Debug(DPARS, ("load_entry()...about to parse command\n"));
- 
-+	/* If the first character of the command is '-', it is a cron option. */
-+	ch = get_char(file);
-+	while (ch == '-') {
-+		switch (ch = get_char(file)) {
-+			case 'n':
-+				/* only allow user to set the option once */
-+				if ((e->flags & MAIL_WHEN_ERR) == MAIL_WHEN_ERR) {
-+					ecode = e_option;
-+					goto eof;
-+				}
-+				e->flags |= MAIL_WHEN_ERR;
-+				break;
-+
-+			default:
-+				ecode = e_option;
-+				goto eof;
-+		}
-+
-+		ch = get_char(file);
-+		if (ch != '\t' && ch != ' ') {
-+			ecode = e_option;
-+			goto eof;
-+		}
-+		Skip_Blanks(ch, file);
-+		if (ch == EOF || ch == '\n') {
-+			ecode = e_cmd;
-+			goto eof;
-+		}
-+	}
-+	unget_char(ch, file);
-+
- 	/* Everything up to the next \n or EOF is part of the command...
- 	 * too bad we don't know in advance how long it will be, since we
- 	 * need to malloc a string for it... so, we limit it to MAX_COMMAND.
-diff --git a/src/funcs.h b/src/funcs.h
-index dea737e..427e027 100644
---- a/src/funcs.h
-+++ b/src/funcs.h
-@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ int		load_database(cron_db *),
- 		swap_uids_back(void),
- 		load_env(char *, FILE *),
- 		env_set_from_environ(char ***envpp),
-+		cron_pabort(FILE *),
- 		cron_pclose(FILE *),
- 		glue_strings(char *, size_t, const char *, const char *, char),
- 		strcmp_until(const char *, const char *, char),
-diff --git a/src/popen.c b/src/popen.c
-index 4397264..3043eb6 100644
---- a/src/popen.c
-+++ b/src/popen.c
-@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ FILE *cron_popen(char *program, const char *type, struct passwd *pw, char **jobe
- 	return (iop);
- }
- 
--int cron_pclose(FILE * iop) {
-+static int cron_finalize(FILE * iop, int sig) {
- 	int fdes;
- 	sigset_t oset, nset;
- 	WAIT_T stat_loc;
-@@ -180,7 +180,12 @@ int cron_pclose(FILE * iop) {
- 	fdes = fileno(iop);
- 	if (pids == NULL || fdes >= fds || pids[fdes] == 0L)
- 		return (-1);
--	(void) fclose(iop);
-+	
-+	if (!sig) {
-+		(void) fclose(iop);
-+	} else if (kill(pids[fdes], sig) == -1) {
-+		return -1;
-+	}
- 
- 	sigemptyset(&nset);
- 	sigaddset(&nset, SIGINT);
-@@ -189,6 +194,28 @@ int cron_pclose(FILE * iop) {
- 	(void) sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &nset, &oset);
- 	while ((pid = wait(&stat_loc)) != pids[fdes] && pid != -1) ;
- 	(void) sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oset, NULL);
-+	
-+	if (sig) {
-+		(void) fclose(iop);
-+	}
- 	pids[fdes] = 0;
--	return (pid == -1 ? -1 : WEXITSTATUS(stat_loc));
-+
-+	if (pid < 0) {
-+		return pid;
-+	}
-+
-+	if (WIFEXITED(stat_loc)) {
-+		return WEXITSTATUS(stat_loc);
-+	} else {
-+		return WTERMSIG(stat_loc);
-+	}
-+}
-+
-+int cron_pclose(FILE * iop) {
-+	return cron_finalize(iop, 0);
-+}
-+
-+int cron_pabort(FILE * iop) {
-+	int esig = cron_finalize(iop, SIGKILL);
-+	return esig == SIGKILL ? 0 : esig;
- }
-diff --git a/src/structs.h b/src/structs.h
-index 6d3c15b..d930da5 100644
---- a/src/structs.h
-+++ b/src/structs.h
-@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ typedef	struct _entry {
- #define	DOW_STAR	0x08
- #define	WHEN_REBOOT	0x10
- #define	DONT_LOG	0x20
-+#define	MAIL_WHEN_ERR	0x40
- } entry;
- 
- 			/* the crontab database will be a list of the
diff --git a/cronie.spec b/cronie.spec
index 49a6672..e422e1b 100644
--- a/cronie.spec
+++ b/cronie.spec
@@ -5,15 +5,12 @@
 
 Summary:   Cron daemon for executing programs at set times
 Name:      cronie
-Version:   1.6.1
+Version:   1.7.0
 Release:   %autorelease
 License:   GPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
 URL:       https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie
 Source0:   https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/releases/download/cronie-%{version}/cronie-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-# https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/commit/ce7d5bf0a43d147f8502e6424cd523b56adf5599
-Patch:     add_-n_option_for_crontab_entries.patch
-
 Requires:  dailyjobs
 
 %if %{with selinux}
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a34176c..22b8e68 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (cronie-1.6.1.tar.gz) = 610fb21077fde08f2cf302e26c9b71aa711b8f4ac1e8a4e9f9f70d616d916965673e836f48b79c4b75de4a93ab893f62887263dce214d6e064fc41fcf0f4093d
+SHA512 (cronie-1.7.0.tar.gz) = a8e6688a164540e2cd3741c58813b6684c4c22a04806bcc8ba028a9ff72f986f165715ac3663bd34133af6566bdbd272a3e7be893f139e315aef35b2dbeb622f