diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0e4db02..0c73ad5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ libguestfs-1.5.3.tar.gz
 /libguestfs-1.7.13.tar.gz
 /libguestfs-1.7.14.tar.gz
 /libguestfs-1.7.15.tar.gz
+/libguestfs-1.7.16.tar.gz
diff --git a/0001-libtool-fix-Don-t-do-fix-if-there-was-no-o-option-to.patch b/0001-libtool-fix-Don-t-do-fix-if-there-was-no-o-option-to.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 667ddf0..0000000
--- a/0001-libtool-fix-Don-t-do-fix-if-there-was-no-o-option-to.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-From 60b3c8e81124a881cd93ed66c167cac37e87c36b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:26:09 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] libtool fix: Don't do fix if there was no -o option to libtool.
-
-For example if libtool is being run as 'libtool --mode=execute ...'
-
-This fixes commit 4cf4f2b66f850bb39c5bf29d3cd12ada9114d67e.
----
- libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh |   13 ++++++++-----
- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh b/libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh
-index 1403fbe..9f17038 100755
---- a/libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh
-+++ b/libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh
-@@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ done
- # Run libtool as normal.
- #echo "${args[@]}"
- "${args[@]}"
--mv "$output" "$output.tmp"
- 
--# Remove dependency_libs from output.
--sed "s/^dependency_libs=.*/dependency_libs=''/" < "$output.tmp" > "$output"
--chmod --reference="$output.tmp" "$output"
--rm "$output.tmp"
-+if [ -n "$output" ]; then
-+    mv "$output" "$output.tmp"
-+
-+    # Remove dependency_libs from output.
-+    sed "s/^dependency_libs=.*/dependency_libs=''/" < "$output.tmp" > "$output"
-+    chmod --reference="$output.tmp" "$output"
-+    rm "$output.tmp"
-+fi
--- 
-1.7.3.2
-
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 3c9bc1a..47702e6 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 Summary:       Access and modify virtual machine disk images
 Name:          libguestfs
 Epoch:         1
-Version:       1.7.15
-Release:       2%{?dist}
+Version:       1.7.16
+Release:       1%{?dist}
 License:       LGPLv2+
 Group:         Development/Libraries
 URL:           http://libguestfs.org/
@@ -52,13 +52,10 @@ BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
 # Disable FUSE tests, not supported in Koji at the moment.
 Patch0:        libguestfs-1.7.13-no-fuse-test.patch
 
-# Upstream patch to fix libtool wrapper script.
-Patch1:        0001-libtool-fix-Don-t-do-fix-if-there-was-no-o-option-to.patch
-
 # Basic build requirements:
 BuildRequires: /usr/bin/pod2man
 BuildRequires: /usr/bin/pod2text
-BuildRequires: febootstrap >= 2.10
+BuildRequires: febootstrap >= 2.11
 BuildRequires: hivex-devel >= 1.2.2
 BuildRequires: augeas-devel >= 0.5.0
 BuildRequires: readline-devel
@@ -136,7 +133,7 @@ BuildRequires: qemu-img
 
 # Runtime requires:
 Requires:      qemu-kvm >= 0.12
-Requires:      febootstrap >= 2.10
+Requires:      febootstrap >= 2.11
 
 # For libguestfs-test-tool.
 Requires:      genisoimage
@@ -210,7 +207,6 @@ Requires:      %{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
 Requires:      /usr/bin/hexedit
 Requires:      /usr/bin/less
 Requires:      /usr/bin/man
-Requires:      /usr/bin/pod2text
 Requires:      /bin/vi
 
 
@@ -437,7 +433,6 @@ php-%{name} contains PHP bindings for %{name}.
 %setup -q
 
 %patch0 -p1
-%patch1 -p1
 
 mkdir -p daemon/m4
 
@@ -740,6 +735,11 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 26 2010 Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.7.16-1
+- New upstream development version 1.7.16.
+- guestfish no longer requires pod2text, hence no longer requires perl.
+- Require febootstrap >= 2.11.
+
 * Fri Nov 26 2010 Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.7.15-2
 - New upstream development version 1.7.15.
 - Split out new libguestfs-tools-c package from libguestfs-tools.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 633c459..f9be83d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-63b111cb063b01c4f5425c10cfc0df44  libguestfs-1.7.15.tar.gz
+536e9cce249ccc32e9c609fdfefc7a80  libguestfs-1.7.16.tar.gz