diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index 60cd6b7..a294be4 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           git
-Version:        2.7.4
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        2.8.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Fast Version Control System
 License:        GPLv2
 Group:          Development/Tools
@@ -608,7 +608,8 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 %files core -f bin-files-core
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc COPYING
+%{!?_licensedir:%global license %doc}
+%license COPYING
 # exlude is best way here because of troubels with symlinks inside git-core/
 %exclude %{_datadir}/git-core/contrib/hooks/update-paranoid
 %exclude %{_datadir}/git-core/contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl
@@ -617,7 +618,7 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 %files core-doc -f man-doc-files-core
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc README Documentation/*.txt Documentation/RelNotes contrib/
+%doc README.md Documentation/*.txt Documentation/RelNotes contrib/
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/*.html Documentation/docbook-xsl.css}
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/howto Documentation/technical}
 %if ! %{use_prebuilt_docs}
@@ -724,6 +725,10 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 # No files for you!
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 29 2016 Neal Gompa <ngompa13{%}gmail{*}com> - 2.8.0-1
+- Update to 2.8.0
+- Use license macro for COPYING
+
 * Sun Mar 27 2016 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> - 2.7.4-2
 - Use https for URL / Source and smaller tar.xz files
 - Check upstream GPG signatures in %%prep
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index bcef26e..36adb01 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-b0219fcb6d73104361f4fbdba3741d00  git-2.7.4.tar.xz
-d37654c45897afa4501fe7bc138b576f  git-htmldocs-2.7.4.tar.xz
-52507ee81f9aac0abf85160398cd3e81  git-manpages-2.7.4.tar.xz
-ed0dffdb32bc3c49673947ed99d421af  git-2.7.4.tar.sign
-717564d0ffd3cc2416df28ff73234be3  git-htmldocs-2.7.4.tar.sign
-d5d42db9e7923a0ce8a0b0210d62d5e5  git-manpages-2.7.4.tar.sign
+01477f0b97ccab20b986f2808f4d7a97  git-2.8.0.tar.xz
+07902ab3c46f96a5173fd3157c958cb1  git-htmldocs-2.8.0.tar.xz
+d67a7db0f363e8c3b2960cd84ad0373f  git-manpages-2.8.0.tar.xz
+f195caa1f5f22d17571dd4f5ecde6533  git-2.8.0.tar.sign
+e5250055b938ff3da2bf454fb5433c5a  git-htmldocs-2.8.0.tar.sign
+c1e2a0652ca325d1e15aa1cfd9fdbb23  git-manpages-2.8.0.tar.sign