diff --git a/GD-2.59-cflags.patch b/GD-2.59-cflags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15c1960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/GD-2.59-cflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- Makefile.PL
++++ Makefile.PL
+@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ print F $DEFINES,"\n";
+ close F;
+ 
+ my $CCFLAGS = $Config{ccflags};
+-$CCFLAGS .= " -Wformat=0" if $Config{gccversion};
+ 
+ WriteMakefile(
+     'NAME'	=> 'GD',
diff --git a/perl-GD.spec b/perl-GD.spec
index 9338e31..5d82d63 100644
--- a/perl-GD.spec
+++ b/perl-GD.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 Name:           perl-GD
-Version:        2.56
-Release:        11%{?dist}
+Version:        2.59
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Perl interface to the GD graphics library
-Group:          Development/Libraries
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic 2.0
 URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/GD/
-Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/GD-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:         GD-2.56-utf8.patch
-Patch1:         GD-2.56-flaky-test.patch
+Patch1:         GD-2.59-cflags.patch
 # Module Build
 BuildRequires:  coreutils
 BuildRequires:  findutils
@@ -18,8 +17,9 @@ BuildRequires:  perl
 BuildRequires:  perl-devel
 BuildRequires:  perl-generators
 BuildRequires:  perl(Config)
+BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
+BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::PkgConfig)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Getopt::Long)
-BuildRequires:  perl(Module::Build)
 # Module Runtime
 BuildRequires:  perl(AutoLoader)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Carp)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Requires:       gd >= 2.0.28
 %{?perl_default_filter}
 
 %description
-This is a autoloadable interface module for GD, a popular library
+This is a auto-loadable interface module for GD, a popular library
 for creating and manipulating PNG files. With this library you can
 create PNG images on the fly or modify existing files.
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ create PNG images on the fly or modify existing files.
 # Re-code documentation as UTF8
 %patch0
 
-# Mark the flaky image comparison test as TODO (#1291200, CPAN RT#100294)
+# Upstream wants -Wformat=0 but we don't
 %patch1
 
 # Fix shellbangs in sample scripts
@@ -62,41 +62,57 @@ perl -pi -e 's|/usr/local/bin/perl\b|%{__perl}|' \
       demos/{*.{pl,cgi},truetype_test}
 
 %build
-perl Build.PL
-./Build
+perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="%{optflags}"
+make
 
 %install
-./Build install --destdir=%{buildroot} --installdirs=vendor --create_packlist=0
-find %{buildroot} -type f -name '*.bs' -empty -exec rm -f {} ';'
-%{_fixperms} %{buildroot}
-
-# These files should not have been installed
-rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/bdf2gdfont.PLS \
-   %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/README \
-   %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/bdf2gdfont.PLS.1*
-
-# This binary is in gd-progs
-rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/bdftogd
+make pure_install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
+find %{buildroot} -type f -name '*.bs' -empty -delete
+find %{buildroot} -type f -name .packlist -delete
+%{_fixperms} -c %{buildroot}
 
 %check
-./Build test --verbose
+make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
 
 %files
 %license LICENSE
 %doc ChangeLog README README.QUICKDRAW demos/
 %{_bindir}/bdf2gdfont.pl
-%{_bindir}/cvtbdf.pl
 %{perl_vendorarch}/auto/GD/
 %{perl_vendorarch}/GD.pm
 %{perl_vendorarch}/GD/
 %{_mandir}/man1/bdf2gdfont.pl.1*
 %{_mandir}/man3/GD.3*
+%{_mandir}/man3/GD::Group.3*
 %{_mandir}/man3/GD::Image.3*
 %{_mandir}/man3/GD::Polygon.3*
 %{_mandir}/man3/GD::Polyline.3*
 %{_mandir}/man3/GD::Simple.3*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Apr 21 2017 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 2.59-1
+- Update to 2.59
+  - Remove Build.PL, fix permissions, fix for missing gdlib-config
+  - Fix feature extraction ≥ 2.2 (CPAN RT#119459)
+  - Add alpha method
+  - Improve option handling
+  - Fix metadata
+  - Fix Jpeg magic number detection (CPAN RT#26146)
+  - Fix RGB-HSV roundtrips (CPAN RT#120572)
+  - Fix -print-search-dirs errors (CPAN RT#106265)
+  - Co-maint to RURBAN
+  - Add hv_fetchs, CI smokers
+  - Add GD::VERSION_STRING API
+  - Honor --lib_gd_path specific gdlib-config
+  - Loosen the comparison tests with GDIMAGETYPE ne gd2
+  - Improve gdlib-config parsing (GH#17), esp. with 2.0.34
+  - Error on failing libgd calls
+  - Fix colorClosestAlpha, colorAllocateAlpha
+  - Add missing documentation
+- This release by RURBAN → update source URL
+- Switch to ExtUtils::MakeMaker flow
+- Drop legacy Group: tag
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.56-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 57c258a..b474b8d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c4b3afd98b2c4ce3c2e1027d101a8f1e  GD-2.56.tar.gz
+SHA512 (GD-2.59.tar.gz) = 7accaabbffbba70a0030656b67dd2f8f6ee84ac616a5ca6b877bc7d69f4896319ac535726c5a147303e14bcfb6c107f9be2753f744a438cdd20bfab6b2b87330