diff --git a/0001-Put-dummy-pacificnew-into-rearguard-tarball.patch b/0001-Put-dummy-pacificnew-into-rearguard-tarball.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95818e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Put-dummy-pacificnew-into-rearguard-tarball.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From 0c8cac40a6ee69e106f3b034624890b98cad5b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:15:27 -0700
+Subject: [PROPOSED] Put dummy pacificnew into rearguard tarball
+
+Problem reported by Mike Cullinan in:
+https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029309.html
+* Makefile (tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.tar.gz):
+Put an empty pacificnew file into the rearguard tarball.
+* NEWS: Mention this.
+---
+ Makefile | 6 +++++-
+ NEWS     | 7 +++++++
+ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 28972c6..95f0a06 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -1022,10 +1022,14 @@ tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.tar.gz: rearguard.zi set-timestamps.out
+ 		done
+ 		sed '1s/$$/-rearguard/' \
+ 		  <version >tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/version
++		: The dummy pacificnew pacifies TZUpdater 2.3.1 and earlier.
++		touch -md 2020-10-12T22:53:00Z \
++		  tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/pacificnew
+ 		touch -cmr version tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/version
+ 		LC_ALL=C && export LC_ALL && \
+ 		  (cd tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir && \
+-		   tar $(TARFLAGS) -cf - $(COMMON) $(DATA) $(MISC) | \
++		   tar $(TARFLAGS) -cf - \
++			$(COMMON) $(DATA) $(MISC) pacificnew | \
+ 		     gzip $(GZIPFLAGS)) >$@.out
+ 		mv $@.out $@
diff --git a/0003-continue-to-ship-posixrules.patch b/0003-continue-to-ship-posixrules.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1755352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0003-continue-to-ship-posixrules.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -Nrup a/Makefile b/Makefile
+--- a/Makefile	2020-10-13 15:58:12.000000000 -0400
++++ b/Makefile	2020-10-13 16:03:09.461302282 -0400
+@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ LOCALTIME=	GMT
+ #	make zonenames
+ # to get a list of the values you can use for POSIXRULES.
+ 
+-POSIXRULES=	-
++POSIXRULES=    America/New_York
+ 
+ # Also see TZDEFRULESTRING below, which takes effect only
+ # if the time zone files cannot be accessed.
+Binary files a/tzdata2020b-rearguard.tar.gz and b/tzdata2020b-rearguard.tar.gz differ
diff --git a/tzdata.spec b/tzdata.spec
index 035f760..43bf952 100644
--- a/tzdata.spec
+++ b/tzdata.spec
@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ Name: tzdata
 Version: 2020b
 %define tzdata_version 2020b
 %define tzcode_version 2020b
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: Public Domain
 Group: System Environment/Base
 URL: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
 Source0: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata%{tzdata_version}.tar.gz
 Source1: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode%{tzcode_version}.tar.gz
 
+Patch001: 0001-Put-dummy-pacificnew-into-rearguard-tarball.patch
 Patch002: 0002-Fix-have-snprintf-error.patch
+Patch003: 0003-continue-to-ship-posixrules.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gawk, glibc, perl-interpreter
 BuildRequires: java-devel
@@ -40,7 +42,9 @@ This package contains timezone information for use by Java runtimes.
 %prep
 %setup -q -c -a 1
 
+%patch001 -p1
 %patch002 -p1
+%patch003 -p1
 
 # Currently tzdata is providing the "rearguard" data set for maximum
 # compatibility with existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux installs. Future releases of
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ echo "%{name}%{tzdata_version}" >> VERSION
 %build
 
 FILES="africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica
-       etcetera backward"
+       pacificnew etcetera backward"
 
 mkdir zoneinfo/{,posix,right}
 zic -y ./yearistype -d zoneinfo -L /dev/null -p America/New_York $FILES
@@ -147,6 +151,10 @@ echo ============END TESTING===========
 %{_datadir}/javazi-1.8
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 13 2020 Patsy Griffin <patsy@redhat.com> - 2020b-2
+- Include the upstream patch to support pacificnew for java tzupdater.
+- Set POSIXRULES macro to continue installing posixrules file. 
+
 * Wed Oct 07 2020 Patsy Griffin <patsy@redhat.com> - 2020b-1
 - Rebase to tzdata-2020b
   - Yukon timezones represented by America/Whitehorse and