diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1b42ca9..a4496df 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1 @@
-curl-7.21.2.tar.lzma
-/curl-7.21.3.tar.lzma
-/curl-7.21.4.tar.lzma
-/curl-7.21.5.tar.lzma
+/curl-7.21.6.tar.lzma
diff --git a/0001-curl-7.21.5-82ecc85.patch b/0001-curl-7.21.5-82ecc85.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 626beb9..0000000
--- a/0001-curl-7.21.5-82ecc85.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-From 82ecc85d9ed0fc05931fb6d6893eda567a3c443f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:03:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] curl-config: fix --version
-
-curl-config --version didn't output the correct version string (bug
-introduced in commit 0355e33b5f7b234cf3), and unfortunately the test
-case 1022 that was supposed to check for this was broken.
-
-This change fixes the test to detect this problem and it fixes the
-output.
-
-Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3288727
----
- curl-config.in            |    4 ++--
- tests/libtest/test1022.pl |   17 +++++++++++++----
- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/curl-config.in b/curl-config.in
-index 27b9f7f..0232803 100644
---- a/curl-config.in
-+++ b/curl-config.in
-@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
- #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
- #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
- #
--# Copyright (C) 2001 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
-+# Copyright (C) 2001 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
- #
- # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
- # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
-@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ while test $# -gt 0; do
- 	;;
- 
-     --version)
--	echo libcurl @VERSION@
-+	echo libcurl @CURLVERSION@
- 	exit 0
- 	;;
- 
-diff --git a/tests/libtest/test1022.pl b/tests/libtest/test1022.pl
-index 60eee38..7fac00e 100755
---- a/tests/libtest/test1022.pl
-+++ b/tests/libtest/test1022.pl
-@@ -22,14 +22,23 @@ my $curlconfigversion;
- open(CURLCONFIG, "sh $ARGV[0] --$what|") || die "Can't get curl-config --$what list\n";
- $_ = <CURLCONFIG>;
- chomp;
-+my $filever=$_;
- if ( $what eq "version" ) {
--    /^libcurl ([\.\d]+(-DEV)?)$/ ;
--    $curlconfigversion = $1;
-+    if($filever =~ /^libcurl ([\.\d]+(-DEV)?)$/) {
-+        $curlconfigversion = $1;
-+    }
-+    else {
-+        $curlconfigversion = "illegal value";
-+    }
- }
- else {
-     # Convert hex version to decimal for comparison's sake
--    /^(..)(..)(..)$/ ;
--    $curlconfigversion = hex($1) . "." . hex($2) . "." . hex($3);
-+    if($filever =~ /^(..)(..)(..)$/) {
-+        $curlconfigversion = hex($1) . "." . hex($2) . "." . hex($3);
-+    }
-+    else {
-+        $curlconfigversion = "illegal value";
-+    }
- 
-     # Strip off the -DEV from the curl version if it's there
-     $version =~ s/-DEV$//;
--- 
-1.7.4.2
-
diff --git a/curl.spec b/curl.spec
index 0db973e..7027c1b 100644
--- a/curl.spec
+++ b/curl.spec
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
 Name: curl
-Version: 7.21.5
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 7.21.6
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 Group: Applications/Internet
 Source: http://curl.haxx.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.lzma
 Source2: curlbuild.h
 Source3: hide_selinux.c
 
-# fix the output of curl-config --version
-Patch1: 0001-curl-7.21.5-82ecc85.patch
-
 # patch making libcurl multilib ready
 Patch101: 0101-curl-7.21.1-multilib.patch
 
@@ -109,9 +106,6 @@ for f in CHANGES README; do
     mv -f ${f}.utf8 ${f}
 done
 
-# upstream patches
-%patch1 -p1
-
 # Fedora patches
 %patch101 -p1
 %patch102 -p1
@@ -224,6 +218,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/libcurl.m4
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Apr 23 2011 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 7.21.6-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Mon Apr 18 2011 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> 7.21.5-2
 - fix the output of curl-config --version (upstream commit 82ecc85)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8ff9e2a..b1c6b62 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-decd5586c2bd0496ca562dc8a7244e24  curl-7.21.5.tar.lzma
+c90b24164c0662f2c16777d40a625557  curl-7.21.6.tar.lzma