diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e01a3aa..f6c7988 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-/ncurses-5.8.tar.gz
-/ncurses-5.8-20110305-20110319.patch.bz2
+/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/ncurses.spec b/ncurses.spec
index e8b4d09..e7e921a 100644
--- a/ncurses.spec
+++ b/ncurses.spec
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 Summary: Ncurses support utilities
 Name: ncurses
-Version: 5.8
-Release: 2.20110319%{?dist}
+Version: 5.9
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 Group: System Environment/Base
 URL: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
 Source0: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-# upstream patches
-Patch1: ncurses-5.8-20110305-20110319.patch.bz2
-
 Patch8: ncurses-config.patch
 Patch9: ncurses-libs.patch
 Patch11: ncurses-urxvt.patch
@@ -92,8 +89,6 @@ The ncurses-static package includes static libraries of the ncurses library.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
-%patch1 -p1
-
 %patch8 -p1 -b .config
 %patch9 -p1 -b .libs
 %patch11 -p1 -b .urxvt
@@ -101,7 +96,7 @@ The ncurses-static package includes static libraries of the ncurses library.
 
 # this will be in documentation, drop executable bits
 cp -p install-sh test
-chmod 644 test/*
+find test -type f | xargs chmod 644
 
 for f in ANNOUNCE; do
 	iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 -o ${f}{_,} &&
@@ -277,6 +272,9 @@ bzip2 NEWS
 rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 05 2011 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 5.9-1
+- update to 5.9
+
 * Tue Mar 22 2011 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 5.8-2.20110319
 - update to patch 20110319
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index add2e32..5341ee2 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-20ed3fa7599937f0ca268d9088837a64  ncurses-5.8.tar.gz
-5e23f5196f0a86e089faa058a23ce6b3  ncurses-5.8-20110305-20110319.patch.bz2
+8cb9c412e5f2d96bc6f459aa8c6282a1  ncurses-5.9.tar.gz