diff --git a/0001-meson-git-version-is-optional.patch b/0001-meson-git-version-is-optional.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 31bbc44..0000000
--- a/0001-meson-git-version-is-optional.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-From 15464009a220b67543787a9dbbbdbef4704be3fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
-Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 11:13:41 +0400
-Subject: [PATCH] meson: git version is optional
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-Fix commit a755e2ae77035aad9644adadaec5ecf15e9656ba ("meson: fix new
-warning about run_command()")
-
-Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
----
- meson.build | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 15fd5cd..5eba715 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ project('gcab', 'c',
- git_version = []
- git = find_program('git', required: false)
- if git.found()
--  git_version = run_command(git, 'describe', '--abbrev=4', '--dirty', check: true).stdout().strip().split('-')
-+  git_version = run_command(git, 'describe', '--abbrev=4', '--dirty', check: false).stdout().strip().split('-')
- endif
- 
- # libtool versioning
--- 
-2.37.1
-
diff --git a/gcab.spec b/gcab.spec
index 4f257b7..1030322 100644
--- a/gcab.spec
+++ b/gcab.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 Name:           gcab
-Version:        1.5
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.6
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Cabinet file library and tool
 
 License:        LGPLv2+
 #VCS:           git:git://git.gnome.org/gcab
 URL:            http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcab
 Source0:        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcab/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
-Patch0000:      0001-meson-git-version-is-optional.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  git-core
 BuildRequires:  gettext
@@ -78,6 +77,9 @@ Libraries, includes, etc. to compile with the gcab library.
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libgcab-1.0.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 10 2023 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> - 1.6-1
+- new version
+
 * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0314906..1bb6846 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gcab-1.5.tar.xz) = 2a9b7d2720abbb5527d478ac760898ae254d08b7aa929fbb21753296e5a07c51d62e134a3f8b1b21d9b557d4093505194e09823ddbaf58465d37b372f37534b7
+SHA512 (gcab-1.6.tar.xz) = 26b8dcf47ba98e7cc073a551d1c965c13a72d298c8a4e124823bdbb20fe314c8f687232df9ae824a54d81f96fe7d9ac1a40aed24e51f8706595079cec2c61fc9