diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1671351..0b028fb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 hspell-0.9.tar.gz
 hspell-1.0.tar.gz
+/hspell-1.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch b/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 81467c3..0000000
--- a/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-Index: hspell-1.0/Makefile.in
-===================================================================
---- hspell-1.0.orig/Makefile.in
-+++ hspell-1.0/Makefile.in
-@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@
- 
- # Our TARGETS variable chooses what to compile. Some things are
- # optionally compiled depending on --enable-* paramters to configure.
--TARGETS = @TARGETS@
-+TARGETS = @TARGETS@ libhspell.a
- all: $(TARGETS)
- 
- # SEDCMD controls on whether objective-kinuyim - about 130,000 rare verb
-@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ clean:
- 	      hebrew.wgz.lingsizes.tmp dmask.c install.js \
- 	      spell-he.xpi he.dic he.aff README-he.txt \
- 	      README_he_IL.txt he_IL.dic he_IL.aff he_IL.zip \
--	      specfilter.o specfilter
-+	      specfilter.o specfilter \
-+	      libhspell.so.0 libhspell.so *.lo
- 	rm -f hebeng/install.js hebeng/heb-eng.aff hebeng/heb-eng.dic \
- 	      hebeng/README-he.txt hebeng/README-en-US.txt \
- 	      hebeng/spell-heb-eng.xpi
-@@ -113,6 +114,9 @@ install: all
- 	test -d $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR) || mkdir -m 755 -p $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)
- 	cp libhspell.a $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/
- 	chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.a
-+	cp libhspell.so.0 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/
-+	chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.so.0
-+	ln -sf libhspell.so.0 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.so
- 	test -d $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR) || mkdir -m 755 -p $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)
- 	cp hspell.h linginfo.h $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/
- 	chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/hspell.h $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/linginfo.h
-@@ -166,19 +170,30 @@ libhspell.a: dict_radix.o gimatria.o cor
- 	ar cr $@ $^
- 	-ranlib $@
- 
--$(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE): hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.a
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE) hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.a $(LIBS)
-+EXTRAOBJECTSPIC=$(EXTRAOBJECTS:.o=.lo)
-+
-+%.lo: %.c
-+	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -fPIC -DPIC -o $@ $<
-+
-+libhspell.so.0: dict_radix.lo gimatria.lo corlist.lo libhspell.lo $(EXTRAOBJECTSPIC)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ -shared -Wl,-soname,libhspell.so.0 $^ -lz
-+	ln -sf libhspell.so.0 libhspell.so
-+
-+$(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE): hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.so.0
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE) hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.so.0 $(LIBS)
- 
- # remember to update this dependency list once in a while...
- libhspell.o dict_radix.o find_sizes.o: dict_radix.h
- dict_radix.o linginfo.o: gzbuffered.h
- libhspell.o mk_he_affix.o: prefixes.c
-+libhspell.lo mk_he_affix.lo: prefixes.c
- hspell.o: hash.h tclHash.h
- tclHash.o: tclHash.h
- corlist.o gimatria.o hspell.o libhspell.o: hspell.h
- hspell.o libhspell.o linginfo.o: linginfo.h hspell.h
- linginfo.o: dmask.c
- specfilter.o: prefixes.c
-+specfilter.lo: prefixes.c
- 
- prefixes.c: genprefixes.pl PrefixBits.pl
- 	$(PERL) -w ./genprefixes.pl >prefixes.c
diff --git a/hspell.spec b/hspell.spec
index 8e5b4b2..fceb4bd 100644
--- a/hspell.spec
+++ b/hspell.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Summary: A Hebrew spell checker
 Name: hspell
-Version: 1.1
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 1.2
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 URL: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il
 Source: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/hspell-%{version}.tar.gz
-License: GPLv2
+License: AGPLv3
 Group: Applications/Text
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel hunspell-devel
-Patch0: hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
+#Patch0: hspell-1.2.sharedlib.patch
 
 %description
 Hspell is a Hebrew SPELLer and morphological analyzer. It provides a mostly
@@ -43,26 +43,13 @@ Hebrew hunspell dictionaries.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1 -b .sharedlib.patch
+#%patch0 -p1 -b .sharedlib.patch
 /usr/bin/iconv -f hebrew -t utf8 -o WHATSNEW WHATSNEW
 
 %build
-%configure --enable-fatverb --enable-linginfo
+%configure --enable-fatverb --enable-linginfo --enable-shared
 make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" STRIP=:
 make hunspell
-cat >> hunspell/new_he.aff << EOF
-MAP 10
-MAP ךכח
-MAP םמ
-MAP ןנ
-MAP ףפ
-MAP ץצ
-MAP כק
-MAP אע # for English
-MAP גה # for Russian
-MAP צס # for Arabic
-MAP חכר # for French
-EOF
 
 %install
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
@@ -70,8 +57,12 @@ make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libhspell.a
 
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell
-cp -p hunspell/new_he.dic $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.dic
-cp -p hunspell/new_he.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.aff
+cp -p he.dic $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.dic
+cp -p he.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.aff
+
+%check
+# there are three known failures
+! make test | grep FAILED | egrep -v '1/aspell/[489]'
 
 %clean
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
@@ -102,8 +93,8 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %changelog
-* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+* Wed Feb 29 2012 Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.technion.ac.il> - 1.2-1
+- Sync with upstream hspell-1.2
 
 * Wed Feb 09 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a2428f7..4dfcd98 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-e79e75180ce529c008ea085954a52f2c  hspell-1.1.tar.gz
+32fbc1a71e86ab46bf7870c6eec9a6be  hspell-1.2.tar.gz