diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 44330c9..5852543 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-/1.0.0-beta2.tar.gz
-/libocxl-1.0.0.tar.gz
-/1.1.0.tar.gz
+/1.*.tar.gz
+/libocxl-*.tar.gz
diff --git a/libocxl.spec b/libocxl.spec
index 646c805..816ff4e 100644
--- a/libocxl.spec
+++ b/libocxl.spec
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 Name:           libocxl
-Version:        1.1.0
-Release:        8%{?dist}
+Version:        1.2.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Allows to implement a user-space driver for an OpenCAPI accelerator
 
 License:        ASL 2.0
 URL:            https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl
-Source0:        https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1:         remove_2_backslashes_in_shell_call.patch
-Patch2:         remove_eng_inc_in_version_pl.patch
+Source0:        https://github.com/OpenCAPI/libocxl/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 ExclusiveArch:  ppc64le
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  doxygen
-BuildRequires: make
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  perl(English)
+# for tests
+BuildRequires:  fuse-devel
 
 %description
 Access library which allows to implement a user-space
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 The *-docs package contains doxygen pages for
 developing applications that use %{name}.
 
+
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
 
@@ -46,6 +48,10 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 %install
 %make_install PREFIX=%{_prefix}
 
+%check
+make testobj/unittests V=1
+
+
 %files
 %license COPYING
 %doc README.md
@@ -59,7 +65,11 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 %files docs
 %{_pkgdocdir}
 
+
 %changelog
+* Wed Jun 16 2021 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 1.2.1-1
+- updated to 1.2.1
+
 * Tue May 11 2021 Timm Bäder <tbaeder@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-8
 - Use %%make_build macro
 
diff --git a/remove_2_backslashes_in_shell_call.patch b/remove_2_backslashes_in_shell_call.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f77bc1b..0000000
--- a/remove_2_backslashes_in_shell_call.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From: Michel Normand <normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Subject: remove 2 backslashes in shell call
-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:26:40 +0200
-
-Remove 2 backslashes in shell call
-
-To avoid make failure.
-Seems to start failing in OBS hardware project
-between 2020-04-05 and 2020-04-08
-
-Signed-off-by: Michel Normand <normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
----
- Makefile |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Index: libocxl-1.1.0/Makefile
-===================================================================
---- libocxl-1.1.0.orig/Makefile
-+++ libocxl-1.1.0/Makefile
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ HAS_WGET = $(shell /bin/which wget > /de
- HAS_CURL = $(shell /bin/which curl > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y || echo n)
- 
- # Update this to test a single feature from the most recent header we require:
--CHECK_OCXL_HEADER_IS_UP_TO_DATE = $(shell /bin/echo -e \\\#include $(1)\\\nvoid test\(struct ocxl_ioctl_features test\)\; | \
-+CHECK_OCXL_HEADER_IS_UP_TO_DATE = $(shell /bin/echo -e \#include $(1)\\\nvoid test\(struct ocxl_ioctl_features test\)\; | \
- 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -Werror -x c -S -o /dev/null - > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y || echo n)
- 
- check_ocxl_header:
diff --git a/remove_eng_inc_in_version_pl.patch b/remove_eng_inc_in_version_pl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 26ca1cc..0000000
--- a/remove_eng_inc_in_version_pl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From: Michel Normand <normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Subject: remove perl english include in version.pl
-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 04:04:19 -0400
-
-Remove perl english include in version.pl
-
-because not present anymore by default for Rawhide (f33) build env
-and not mandatory to create the libocxl_info.h
-
-Signed-off-by: Michel Normand <normand@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
----
- Makefile   |    1 +
- version.pl |    1 -
- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Index: libocxl-1.1.0/version.pl
-===================================================================
---- libocxl-1.1.0.orig/version.pl
-+++ libocxl-1.1.0/version.pl
-@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
- #!/usr/bin/env perl
- 
--use English;
- use strict;
- use warnings;
- 
-Index: libocxl-1.1.0/Makefile
-===================================================================
---- libocxl-1.1.0.orig/Makefile
-+++ libocxl-1.1.0/Makefile
-@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ src/libocxl_info.h: version.pl
- 	VERSION_MAJOR=${VERSION_MAJOR} VERSION_MINOR=${VERSION_MINOR} \
- 	VERSION_PATCH=${VERSION_PATCH} CC="${CC}" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" \
- 	./version.pl > src/libocxl_info.h
-+	cat src/libocxl_info.h
- 
- obj:
- 	mkdir obj
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 590872f..0228e99 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (1.1.0.tar.gz) = 0306403290819f909f844a367873eeb5fc7e2996815bddb2eaf1b727b0d9ab801b6716c70d3229bb7dbf62f5df24d09b7451bdf1d831e6a5bfbc1cc1de834d9e
+SHA512 (libocxl-1.2.1.tar.gz) = 07f1fa173b8a866b076b13b8b0fde4d9a72444e9a2694d71f5866144f163a2ba01a2b07aefa6b960a07950e6768e4c1c747cceeb47e6a27a5dcfa48b9c156f56