diff --git a/0001-common-Update-submodule.patch b/0001-common-Update-submodule.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d3e5fd..0000000
--- a/0001-common-Update-submodule.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From 706236b7f8087f0486596d70ac6973d02028eab1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:07:13 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] common: Update submodule
-
-Pulls in this commit required for libxml2 2.12.1:
-
-    mlxml: Include <libxml/parser.h> for xmlReadMemory
----
- common | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Submodule common e711121607..6185aa8431:
-diff --git a/common/mlxml/xml-c.c b/common/mlxml/xml-c.c
-index 715c3bb..e024bd8 100644
---- a/common/mlxml/xml-c.c
-+++ b/common/mlxml/xml-c.c
-@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
- #include <caml/memory.h>
- #include <caml/mlvalues.h>
- 
-+#include <libxml/parser.h>
- #include <libxml/xpath.h>
- #include <libxml/xpathInternals.h>
- #include <libxml/uri.h>
--- 
-2.42.0
-
diff --git a/guestfs-tools.spec b/guestfs-tools.spec
index 1fc3ea3..66fde73 100644
--- a/guestfs-tools.spec
+++ b/guestfs-tools.spec
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 
 Summary:       Tools to access and modify virtual machine disk images
 Name:          guestfs-tools
-Version:       1.51.5
-Release:       2%{?dist}
+Version:       1.51.6
+Release:       1%{?dist}
 License:       GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later
 
 # Build only for architectures that have a kernel
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ Source1:       http://download.libguestfs.org/guestfs-tools/%{source_directory}/
 Source2:       libguestfs.keyring
 %endif
 
-Patch1:        0001-common-Update-submodule.patch
-
 %if 0%{patches_touch_autotools}
 BuildRequires: autoconf, automake, libtool, gettext-devel
 %endif
@@ -407,6 +405,9 @@ end
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Dec  9 2023 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.51.6-1
+- New development version 1.51.6
+
 * Mon Nov 27 2023 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.51.5-2
 - Fix build for libxml2 2.12.1
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index df958fe..9337bfa 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA512 (guestfs-tools-1.51.5.tar.gz) = a86282c762a87209db543303c629b4bd760d817359dbe4119db0aa52fc73c34f378eaf40acefb018dd76ee47b2f9bb2def3c717d2ee9b0b93d130e7cad674724
-SHA512 (guestfs-tools-1.51.5.tar.gz.sig) = afcc153c49b2bc8636c5fedbdcc679bed714cb15e2c07977d1693558efb81b7f3d4b34b37c43282ea4051464e43a144339f9351d45de8156ba99d7b1039dc73d
+SHA512 (guestfs-tools-1.51.6.tar.gz) = 48e6d5bb7c8b1e6b7b9b7e59b3122b287d321d3e8e435fa65f84aab594d8cf91b0d6d50a4dde7f9265ccabc73bb3b67a8593bfd86a4fbf6b17323fe8496fc8c5
+SHA512 (guestfs-tools-1.51.6.tar.gz.sig) = 341e5220a3251e019dbca20997d478f2ea49008e488f9cfa309a636502902eb3e84dbcadea5f9993e19b1066766a6e1afd1aaf2b22e74212699da66c0a9266ab