diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 11ae514..dc815bd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /python-dateutil-2.2.tar.gz
 /2.4.0.tar.gz
 /2.4.2.tar.gz
+/python-dateutil-2.5.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-dateutil-system-zoneinfo.patch b/python-dateutil-system-zoneinfo.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index eaa27e3..0000000
--- a/python-dateutil-system-zoneinfo.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
---- dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
-+++ dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
-@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
-
- __all__ = ["setcachesize", "gettz", "rebuild"]
-
--_ZONEFILENAME = "dateutil-zoneinfo.tar.gz"
-+_LOCAL_ZONEINFO_FILE = "dateutil-zoneinfo.tar.gz"
-+_SYSTEM_ZONEINFO_DIR = "/usr/share/zoneinfo"
-
--# python2.6 compatability. Note that TarFile.__exit__ != TarFile.close, but
-+# python2.6 compatibility. Note that TarFile.__exit__ != TarFile.close, but
- # it's close enough for python2.6
- _tar_open = TarFile.open
- if not hasattr(TarFile, '__exit__'):
-@@ -31,9 +32,8 @@
-
- def getzoneinfofile_stream():
-     try:
--        return BytesIO(get_data(__name__, _ZONEFILENAME))
-+        return BytesIO(get_data(__name__, _LOCAL_ZONEINFO_FILE))
-     except IOError as e:  # TODO  switch to FileNotFoundError?
--        warnings.warn("I/O error({0}): {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
-         return None
-
-
-@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@
-                 self.zones.update(links)
-         else:
-             self.zones = dict()
-+            if os.path.isdir(_SYSTEM_ZONEINFO_DIR):
-+                for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(_SYSTEM_ZONEINFO_DIR):
-+                    for filename in filenames:
-+                        absolute_filename = os.path.join(root, filename)
-+                        relative_filename = absolute_filename[len(_SYSTEM_ZONEINFO_DIR)+1:]
-+                        with open(absolute_filename, "rb") as file:
-+                            if file.read(4) == b"TZif":
-+                                self.zones[relative_filename] = tzfile(absolute_filename, relative_filename)
-
-
- # The current API has gettz as a module function, although in fact it taps into
-@@ -99,7 +107,7 @@
-                         "libc-bin or some other package that provides it, "
-                         "or it's not in your PATH?")
-                     raise
--        target = os.path.join(moduledir, _ZONEFILENAME)
-+        target = os.path.join(moduledir, _LOCAL_ZONEINFO_FILE)
-         with _tar_open(target, "w:%s" % format) as tf:
-             for entry in os.listdir(zonedir):
-                 entrypath = os.path.join(zonedir, entry)
diff --git a/python-dateutil-timelex-string.patch b/python-dateutil-timelex-string.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bccec4a..0000000
--- a/python-dateutil-timelex-string.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git dateutil/parser.py~ dateutil/parser.py
-index 8b6c2d28b8..75453ef49e 100644
---- dateutil/parser.py~
-+++ dateutil/parser.py
-@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __all__ = ["parse", "parserinfo"]
- class _timelex(object):
- 
-     def __init__(self, instream):
--        if isinstance(instream, text_type):
-+        if not hasattr(instream, 'read'):
-             instream = StringIO(instream)
-         self.instream = instream
-         self.wordchars = ('abcdfeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
diff --git a/python-dateutil.spec b/python-dateutil.spec
index 04f828f..8890215 100644
--- a/python-dateutil.spec
+++ b/python-dateutil.spec
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 Name:           python-dateutil
-Version:        2.4.2
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Version:        2.5.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Epoch:          1
 Summary:        Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
 
 Group:          Development/Languages
 License:        Python
 URL:            https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil
-Source0:        https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
-# https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues/11
-Patch0:         python-dateutil-system-zoneinfo.patch
-Patch1:         python-dateutil-timelex-string.patch
+Source0:        https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/python-dateutil-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
@@ -55,13 +52,13 @@ iconv --from=ISO-8859-1 --to=UTF-8 NEWS > NEWS.new
 mv NEWS.new NEWS
 
 %build
-%{__python2} setup.py build
-%{__python3} setup.py build
+%py2_build
+%py3_build
 make -C docs html
 
 %install
-%{__python2} setup.py install --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%{__python3} setup.py install --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%py2_install
+%py3_install
 
 %check
 %{__python2} setup.py test
@@ -84,6 +81,11 @@ make -C docs html
 %doc docs/_build/html
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 29 2016 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@bupkis> - 1:2.5.0-1
+- Update to latest upstream version
+- The patch to make dateutil.zoneinfo.gettz() use the system database is dropped.
+  Upstream recommends using dateutil.tz.gettz() instead.
+
 * Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1:2.4.2-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 63f2ed1..7403953 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-b22e2b212813f06955bbb36cada93551  2.4.2.tar.gz
+80c96851670122fa9b4083ee5fc0ef3b  python-dateutil-2.5.0.tar.gz