diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 547f6c7..8a86783 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/mdds-1.4.1.tar.bz2
+/mdds-1.4.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/mdds.patch b/mdds.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e352ac9..0000000
--- a/mdds.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/configure.ac	2018-08-29 08:40:39.924444319 +0100
-+++ b/configure.ac	2018-08-29 08:40:55.232738124 +0100
-@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
- 
- CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall -O2 -g -pedantic-errors"
- CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include"
--CXXFLAGS="-Wshadow -std=c++11 -DMDDS_DEBUG_NODE_BASE -DMDDS_UNIT_TEST"
-+CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wshadow -std=c++11 -DMDDS_DEBUG_NODE_BASE -DMDDS_UNIT_TEST"
- 
- if test "$debug_stdcxx" = "yes"; then
-   CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG"
diff --git a/mdds.spec b/mdds.spec
index d7c9e73..32dc423 100644
--- a/mdds.spec
+++ b/mdds.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 %global apiversion 1.4
 
 Name: mdds
-Version: 1.4.1
+Version: 1.4.2
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A collection of multi-dimensional data structures and indexing algorithms
 
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ License: MIT
 URL: https://gitlab.com/mdds/mdds
 Source0: http://kohei.us/files/%{name}/src/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 
-Patch0: mdds.patch
-
 BuildRequires: boost-devel
 BuildRequires: gcc-c++
 BuildRequires: autoconf
@@ -63,6 +61,9 @@ make check %{?_smp_mflags}
 %license COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 19 2018 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Tue Aug 28 2018 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
 - new upstream release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 06e1bb0..02cef2b 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mdds-1.4.1.tar.bz2) = 3ad7cf821cd1a0a4b632c5d11cc3bd7bd6da2b14069e142e087dd81c1dfa817a961edbde1d59021a5bd4859eb252d8c461341070406b952a5b46b00eb7444384
+SHA512 (mdds-1.4.2.tar.bz2) = 1d58d30c2c65167fda97c790739a2bf36802f72965007a141108320312316df9bf252c18ff84f867f3805eee4914fe748ae066d51b376791a723fd54ec21c3c3