diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 11de2f1..0e1175b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /exiv2-0.27.1-Source.tar.gz
+/v0.27.2-RC2.tar.gz
diff --git a/exiv2-0.27.1-cmake_path.patch b/exiv2-0.27.1-cmake_path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f8ffcf..0000000
--- a/exiv2-0.27.1-cmake_path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/compilerFlags.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/compilerFlags
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/compilerFlagsExiv2.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/compilerFlagsExiv2
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/config.h.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/config.h
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/exiv2_uninstall.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/exiv2_uninstall
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/findDependencies.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/findDependencies
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindIconv.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindIconv
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindRegex.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindRegex
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindSSH.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/FindSSH
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/generateConfigFile.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/generateConfigFile
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/generateDoc.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/generateDoc
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/mainSetup.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/mainSetup
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/packaging.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/packaging
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/printSummary.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/cmake/printSummary
-diff -up exiv2-0.27.1-Source/src/CMakeLists.txt.cmake exiv2-0.27.1-Source/src/CMakeLists.txt
---- exiv2-0.27.1-Source/src/CMakeLists.txt.cmake	2019-04-26 04:31:16.000000000 -0500
-+++ exiv2-0.27.1-Source/src/CMakeLists.txt	2019-04-26 13:33:33.913846741 -0500
-@@ -239,9 +239,9 @@ install(FILES
-     ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/exiv2lib_export.h
-     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/exiv2)
- 
--install(EXPORT exiv2Config DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/exiv2/cmake")
-+install(EXPORT exiv2Config DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/exiv2")
- 
--install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/exiv2ConfigVersion.cmake DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/exiv2/cmake")
-+install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/exiv2ConfigVersion.cmake DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/exiv2")
- 
- # ******************************************************************************
- # exiv2 application
diff --git a/exiv2.spec b/exiv2.spec
index 45b17cc..794d1ca 100644
--- a/exiv2.spec
+++ b/exiv2.spec
@@ -1,18 +1,22 @@
 
+%global beta RC2
+
 Summary: Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library
 Name:    exiv2
-Version: 0.27.1
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Version: 0.27.2
+Release: 0.1.%{beta}%{?dist}
 
 License: GPLv2+
 URL:     http://www.exiv2.org/
-#Source0: https://github.com/Exiv2/%{name}/archive/exiv2-%{version}.tar.gz
+%if 0%{?beta:1}
+Source0: https://github.com/Exiv2/%{name}/archive/v%{version}-%{beta}.tar.gz
+%else
 Source0: http://exiv2.org/builds/%{name}-%{version}-Source.tar.gz
+%endif
 
 ## upstream patches
 
 ## upstreamable patches
-Patch100: exiv2-0.27.1-cmake_path.patch
 
 BuildRequires: cmake
 BuildRequires: expat-devel
@@ -69,7 +73,7 @@ BuildArch: noarch
 
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n %{name}-%{version}-Source -p1
+%autosetup -n %{name}-%{version}-%{?beta}%{!?beta:Source} -p1
 
 
 %build
@@ -128,6 +132,9 @@ test -x %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libexiv2.so
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 16 2019 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 0.27.2-0.1.RC2
+- 0.27.2-RC2 (#1720353)
+
 * Fri Apr 26 2019 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 0.27.1-1
 - exiv-0.27.1 (#1696117)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a4fe2c1..c001080 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (exiv2-0.27.1-Source.tar.gz) = 038b51241f5bfb323eb298695b5397a7d88d5c7d7303828e5e20b3f82c3df2615cee3e7e3426ea17438ca05d5abea10984cfd41f0649ddab72df1d1415bf3529
+SHA512 (v0.27.2-RC2.tar.gz) = cf06d8bf25deff633a2780bfd345c9493db19f12dad559281279d6fea3a8dea384e4627e442d3bab3fb8fc79ba139a48de74471dd9dec8452adbcbf6723de1df