diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bab23d6..cae5016 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ xkeyboard-config-1.9.tar.bz2
 /xkeyboard-config-2.5.1.tar.bz2
 /xkeyboard-config-2.6.tar.bz2
 /xkeyboard-config-2.7.tar.bz2
+/xkeyboard-config-2.8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/0001-rules-remove-ml-in-mal-mapping.patch b/0001-rules-remove-ml-in-mal-mapping.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 929b065..0000000
--- a/0001-rules-remove-ml-in-mal-mapping.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-From 05bed913327ffd5ad1e830699a238bca226ee31c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:50:57 +1000
-Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?rules:=20remove=20ml=20=E2=86=92=20in(mal)=20ma?=
- =?UTF-8?q?pping?=
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-ml is Mali, the country.
-in(mal) is Malayalam, the language
-
-Likely introduced in 0a5705d83d3f27892543e809b078644a2dba3911, but went
-unnoticed so far.
-
-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647433
-
-Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
----
- rules/compat/layoutsMapping.lst | 1 -
- 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/rules/compat/layoutsMapping.lst b/rules/compat/layoutsMapping.lst
-index cecda6d..a1a0218 100644
---- a/rules/compat/layoutsMapping.lst
-+++ b/rules/compat/layoutsMapping.lst
-@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ iu	ca(ike)
- lo	la
- kan	in(kan)
- mi	mao
--ml	in(mal)
- ogham	ie(ogam)
- ori	ie(ori)
- sapmi	no(smi)
--- 
-1.8.0.2
-
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 61ead48..5aff1c5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6ad7b43062f123eacf8ff0eb3a4e0678  xkeyboard-config-2.7.tar.bz2
+e66d567d85a954d589c5723fb0e1f3dd  xkeyboard-config-2.8.tar.bz2
diff --git a/xkeyboard-config.spec b/xkeyboard-config.spec
index c87cf76..d6fc4be 100644
--- a/xkeyboard-config.spec
+++ b/xkeyboard-config.spec
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 Summary: X Keyboard Extension configuration data
 Name: xkeyboard-config
-Version: 2.7
-Release: 4%{?gitdate:.%{gitdate}git%{gitversion}}%{?dist}
+Version: 2.8
+Release: 1%{?gitdate:.%{gitdate}git%{gitversion}}%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 Group: User Interface/X
 URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ Source2:    commitid
 Source0: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/data/xkeyboard-config/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 %endif
 
-Patch01: 0001-rules-remove-ml-in-mal-mapping.patch
-
 BuildArch: noarch
 
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig
@@ -111,6 +109,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/X11/xkb/compiled
 %{_datadir}/pkgconfig/xkeyboard-config.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 31 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> 2.8-1
+- xkeyboard-config 2.8
+
 * Wed Jan 02 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> 2.7-4
 - Fix Mali layout previously mapped to in(mal) (#647433)