diff --git a/0001-units-2.16-units_cur.patch b/0001-units-2.16-units_cur.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 101a396..0000000
--- a/0001-units-2.16-units_cur.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-From 29b4b1ac90bfe54f1d7d83a3b3e4e1a1305332fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
-Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 14:21:35 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Resolves: #1574835 - make units_cur work again
-
----
- units_cur | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/units_cur b/units_cur
-index 5541355..d00c12c 100755
---- a/units_cur
-+++ b/units_cur
-@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
- #
- #
- 
--version = '4.1'
-+version = '4.2'
- 
--# 30 October 2017
-+# Version 4.2: 18 April 2018
-+#
-+# Handle case of empty/malformed entry returned from the server
-+#
-+# Version 4.1: 30 October 2017
- #
- # Fixed to include USD in the list of currency codes.  
- #
--# Version 4
--# 2 October 2017
-+# Version 4: 2 October 2017 
- #
- # Complete rewrite to use Yahoo YQL API due to removal of TimeGenie RSS feed.
- # Switched to requests library using JSON.  One program now runs under
-@@ -258,22 +261,27 @@ except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
-                format(e))
-   exit(1)
-       
--rates = [ data['resource']['fields']['price'] for data in webdata]
--codes = [ data['resource']['fields']['symbol'][0:3] for data in webdata]
- 
- rate_index = 1
--
--for (code,rate) in zip(codes,rates):
--  if code not in currency.keys():
--    if (verbose):
--      stderr.write('Got unknown currency with code {}\n'.format(code))
--  else:
--    if not currency[code][rate_index]:
--      currency[code][rate_index] = '1|{} US$'.format(rate)
--    elif verbose:
--      stderr.write('Got value "{}" for currency "{}" but '
--                   'it is already defined\n'.format(rate, code))
--
-+for data in webdata:
-+  entry = data['resource']['fields']
-+  if 'price' not in entry or 'symbol' not in entry:    # Skip empty/bad entries
-+    if verbose:
-+      stderr.write('Got bad entry from server: '+str(entry)+'\n')
-+  else:      
-+    rate = entry['price']
-+    code = entry['symbol'][0:3]
-+    if code not in currency.keys():
-+      if (verbose):
-+        stderr.write('Got unknown currency with code {}\n'.format(code))
-+    else:
-+      if not currency[code][rate_index]:
-+        currency[code][rate_index] = '1|{} US$'.format(rate)
-+      elif verbose:
-+        stderr.write('Got value "{}" for currency "{}" but '
-+                     'it is already defined\n'.format(rate, code))
-+
-+        
- # Delete currencies where we have no rate data
- for code in currency.keys():
-   if not currency[code][rate_index]:
--- 
-2.14.3
-
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 38fa512..cda758f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (units-2.16.tar.gz) = afca2bf313208db2d0a3f4e96fed7bb86a3e96030b420e1cfa68a140499b9a8f2ef8c166c1d608d03c9ca6260199569a67c67c623d8c6a4b8d52e9d5cb6e3091
+SHA512 (units-2.17.tar.gz) = e4114f7dc0e40146f969375511c5d930497cb9502306ef82feac78c8e09a03e84ed0b582ff82e2878beae41702c9612f7a3d28fc6e9ed2cfae708f9feb8b737b
diff --git a/units-2.16.tar.gz.sig b/units-2.16.tar.gz.sig
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d011f7..0000000
Binary files a/units-2.16.tar.gz.sig and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/units-2.17.tar.gz.sig b/units-2.17.tar.gz.sig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18f432c
Binary files /dev/null and b/units-2.17.tar.gz.sig differ
diff --git a/units.spec b/units.spec
index c17ed81..4de7d10 100644
--- a/units.spec
+++ b/units.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: A utility for converting amounts from one unit to another
 Name: units
-Version: 2.16
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 2.17
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Source: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
 License: GPLv3+
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ BuildRequires: readline-devel
 # used by the units_cur script
 Requires: python3-unidecode
 
-# make units_cur work again (#1574835)
-Patch1:   0001-units-2.16-units_cur.patch
-
 %description
 Units converts an amount from one unit to another, or tells you what
 mathematical operation you need to perform to convert from one unit to
@@ -63,10 +60,14 @@ fi
 %{_bindir}/units
 %{_bindir}/units_cur
 %{_datadir}/units
+%{_sharedstatedir}/units
 %{_infodir}/*
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jun 26 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.17-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Mon May 28 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.16-5
 - make units_cur work again (#1574835)