diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eecdd61..f129c9f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ xmlunit1.0.zip
 xmlunit-1.3-src.zip
 /xmlunit-1.4-src.zip
 /xmlunit-1.5-src.zip
+/xmlunit-1.6-src.zip
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 47ce33b..d4e13e8 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-ab042764ea846f7299ec664b84b39dbe  xmlunit-1.5-src.zip
+e69b85b1b386b5027e30053eaaf591a3  xmlunit-1.6-src.zip
diff --git a/xmlunit.spec b/xmlunit.spec
index 35534e4..fe5f046 100644
--- a/xmlunit.spec
+++ b/xmlunit.spec
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
 #
 
 Name:           xmlunit
-Version:        1.5
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        1.6
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Epoch:          0
 Summary:        Provides classes to do asserts on xml
 License:        BSD
-Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xmlunit/xmlunit-1.5-src.zip
+Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xmlunit/xmlunit-1.6-src.zip
 Source1:        http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xmlunit/xmlunit/1.0/xmlunit-1.0.pom
 URL:            http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/
 BuildRequires:  jpackage-utils
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ ant
 %doc %{_javadocdir}/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jan 04 2015 Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <tilmann@bubecks.de> - 0:1.6-1
+- update to upstream's xmlunit-1.6
+
 * Wed Nov  5 2014 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> - 0:1.5-3
 - Remove workaround for RPM bug #646523