diff --git a/perl-XML-Parser.spec b/perl-XML-Parser.spec
index d5132f4..8a97aee 100644
--- a/perl-XML-Parser.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-Parser.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:           perl-XML-Parser
 Version:        2.41
-Release:        7%{?dist}
-Summary:        Perl module for parsing XML files
+Release:        8%{?dist}
+Summary:        Perl module for parsing XML documents
 
 Group:          Development/Libraries
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ BuildRequires:  expat-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl(LWP)
 BuildRequires:  perl(URI)
 BuildRequires:  perl(URI::file)
-Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
+Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`perl -V:version`"; echo $version))
+Requires:       perl(IO::File)
+Requires:       perl(IO::Handle)
 
-%{?filter_setup:
-%filter_from_provides /perl(XML::Parser)$/d
-%?perl_default_filter
-}
+
+%{?perl_default_filter}
 %global __provides_exclude %{?__provides_exclude:%__provides_exclude|}perl\\(XML::Parser\\)$
 
 %description
@@ -45,22 +45,22 @@ creation time.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n XML-Parser-%{version} 
 chmod 644 samples/{canonical,xml*}
-%{__perl} -pi -e 's|^#!/usr/local/bin/perl\b|#!%{__perl}|' samples/{canonical,xml*}
+perl -pi -e 's|^#!/usr/local/bin/perl\b|#!%{__perl}|' samples/{canonical,xml*}
 
 %build
-CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
+CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
 make %{?_smp_mflags} OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
 
 %install
 make pure_install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} ';'
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name '*.bs' -a -size 0 -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
 chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
 
 for file in samples/REC-xml-19980210.xml; do
   iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$file" > "${file}_"
   mv -f "${file}_" "$file"
+  sed -i -e "s/encoding='ISO-8859-1'/encoding='UTF-8'/" "$file"
 done
 
 %check
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ make test
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Nov 22 2012 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 2.41-8
+- Update dependencies and summary
+- Remove pre-RPM-4.9 filters
+- Remove deleting empty directories
+- Update REC-xml-19980210.xml to match new encoding
+
 * Mon Aug 27 2012 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 2.41-7
 - Specify all dependencies.
 - Remove perl(LWP) and perl(URI) from Requires.