diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bfc51fb..182aafa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /snakeyaml-1.17.tar.bz2
 /snakeyaml-1.25.tar.gz
 /snakeyaml-1.26.tar.gz
+/snakeyaml-1.27.tar.gz
diff --git a/0001-replace-bundled-base64coder-with-java.util.Base64.patch b/0001-replace-bundled-base64coder-with-java.util.Base64.patch
index 76fa21e..c09d944 100644
--- a/0001-replace-bundled-base64coder-with-java.util.Base64.patch
+++ b/0001-replace-bundled-base64coder-with-java.util.Base64.patch
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ index 8112370..ae308c7 100644
 +        <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
 +        <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
          <maven.javadoc.failOnError>false</maven.javadoc.failOnError>
-         <spring.version>3.2.17.RELEASE</spring.version>
          <maven-bundle-plugin.version>3.5.0</maven-bundle-plugin.version>
+         <maven-resources-plugin.version>3.0.2</maven-resources-plugin.version><!-- for Github CI -->
 diff --git a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/constructor/SafeConstructor.java b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/constructor/SafeConstructor.java
 index bd022cc..217835d 100644
 --- a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/constructor/SafeConstructor.java
diff --git a/snakeyaml.spec b/snakeyaml.spec
index c43302b..e41d524 100644
--- a/snakeyaml.spec
+++ b/snakeyaml.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-%global vertag e91772b1bc0b
-
-%bcond_with spring
+%global vertag 29e2699b80fc
 
 Name:           snakeyaml
 Summary:        YAML parser and emitter for Java
-Version:        1.26
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Version:        1.27
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 License:        ASL 2.0
 
 URL:            https://bitbucket.org/asomov/%{name}
@@ -31,11 +29,6 @@ BuildRequires:  mvn(org.apache.commons:commons-lang3)
 BuildRequires:  mvn(org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin)
 BuildRequires:  mvn(org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin)
 BuildRequires:  mvn(org.apache.velocity:velocity)
-%if %{with spring}
-BuildRequires:  mvn(org.springframework:spring-core)
-BuildRequires:  mvn(org.springframework:spring-beans)
-BuildRequires:  mvn(org.springframework:spring-context-support)
-%endif
 
 %description
 SnakeYAML features:
@@ -70,9 +63,6 @@ This package contains %{summary}.
 %pom_remove_plugin :maven-site-plugin
 %pom_remove_plugin :nexus-staging-maven-plugin
 
-sed -i "/<artifactId>spring</s/spring/&-core/" pom.xml
-rm -f src/test/java/examples/SpringTest.java
-
 # Replacement for bundled gdata-java-client
 %pom_add_dep commons-codec:commons-codec
 
@@ -80,9 +70,6 @@ rm -f src/test/java/examples/SpringTest.java
 %pom_remove_dep joda-time:joda-time
 rm -rf src/test/java/examples/jodatime
 
-# remove bundled stuff
-rm -rf target
-
 # fails in rpmbuild only due to different locale
 rm src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue67/NonAsciiCharsInClassNameTest.java
 # fails after unbundling
@@ -91,12 +78,6 @@ rm src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue318/ContextClassLoaderTest.java
 # convert CR+LF to LF
 sed -i 's/\r//g' LICENSE.txt
 
-%if %{without spring}
-%pom_remove_dep org.springframework
-rm -r src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue9
-rm src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/helpers/FileTestHelper.java
-%endif
-
 
 %build
 %mvn_build
@@ -114,6 +95,9 @@ rm src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/helpers/FileTestHelper.java
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Oct 24 2020 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 1.27-1
+- Update to version 1.27.
+
 * Wed Jul 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.26-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4cf6c7e..046fe8e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (snakeyaml-1.26.tar.gz) = 00cc2f9ee5f590eb6fbe511844856ed9cc97c6c135f2a116a01a9464eea79eec78be6b0cdfde363d4e1accf803b362cdfb9315f74da73f23c2f9b7900ade3145
+SHA512 (snakeyaml-1.27.tar.gz) = 91977b334d75278c22c55daa944fd3755f00091eeff819980793058a5a7954fa97d22bd7b8ccd03a7826415107ae21673865d70138b9b1bae5b3bdad874c48f2