diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6e3e988..15ca8b2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@ Image-ExifTool-8.25.tar.gz
 /Image-ExifTool-11.85.tar.gz
 /Image-ExifTool-12.00.tar.gz
 /Image-ExifTool-12.16.tar.gz
+/Image-ExifTool-12.26.tar.gz
diff --git a/Image-ExifTool-12.16-CVE-2021-22204.patch b/Image-ExifTool-12.16-CVE-2021-22204.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a200f0..0000000
--- a/Image-ExifTool-12.16-CVE-2021-22204.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-diff -up Image-ExifTool-12.16/lib/Image/ExifTool/DjVu.pm.CVE-2021-22204 Image-ExifTool-12.16/lib/Image/ExifTool/DjVu.pm
---- Image-ExifTool-12.16/lib/Image/ExifTool/DjVu.pm.CVE-2021-22204	2021-04-26 11:06:57.868813858 -0400
-+++ Image-ExifTool-12.16/lib/Image/ExifTool/DjVu.pm	2021-04-26 11:07:46.734614214 -0400
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use strict;
- use vars qw($VERSION);
- use Image::ExifTool qw(:DataAccess :Utils);
- 
--$VERSION = '1.06';
-+$VERSION = '1.07';
- 
- sub ParseAnt($);
- sub ProcessAnt($$$);
-@@ -227,10 +227,11 @@ Tok: for (;;) {
-                 last unless $tok =~ /(\\+)$/ and length($1) & 0x01;
-                 $tok .= '"';    # quote is part of the string
-             }
--            # must protect unescaped "$" and "@" symbols, and "\" at end of string
--            $tok =~ s{\\(.)|([\$\@]|\\$)}{'\\'.($2 || $1)}sge;
--            # convert C escape sequences (allowed in quoted text)
--            $tok = eval qq{"$tok"};
-+            # convert C escape sequences, allowed in quoted text
-+            # (note: this only converts a few of them!)
-+            my %esc = ( a => "\a", b => "\b", f => "\f", n => "\n",
-+                        r => "\r", t => "\t", '"' => '"', '\\' => '\\' );
-+            $tok =~ s/\\(.)/$esc{$1}||'\\'.$1/egs;
-         } else {                # key name
-             pos($$dataPt) = pos($$dataPt) - 1;
-             # allow anything in key but whitespace, braces and double quotes
diff --git a/perl-Image-ExifTool.spec b/perl-Image-ExifTool.spec
index 4cedda1..b56aa5b 100644
--- a/perl-Image-ExifTool.spec
+++ b/perl-Image-ExifTool.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 Name:		perl-Image-ExifTool
-Version:	12.16
-Release:	3%{?dist}
+Version:	12.26
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 License:	GPL+ or Artistic
 Summary:	Utility for reading and writing image meta info
 URL:		http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/
 Source0:	http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-%{version}.tar.gz
-# https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool/commit/cf0f4e7dcd024ca99615bfd1102a841a25dde031#diff-fa0d652d10dbcd246e6b1df16c1e992931d3bb717a7e36157596b76bdadb3800
-Patch0:		Image-ExifTool-12.16-CVE-2021-22204.patch
 BuildArch:	noarch
 BuildRequires:	coreutils
 BuildRequires:	findutils
@@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ Sigma/Foveon, and Sony.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n Image-ExifTool-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
@@ -84,6 +81,9 @@ make test
 %{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jun 23 2021 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 12.26-1
+- update to latest stable (12.26)
+
 * Mon Apr 26 2021 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 12.16-3
 - apply upstream fix for CVE-2021-22204
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b4b0150..a5c65ba 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Image-ExifTool-12.16.tar.gz) = adfd21834ccf06277903712b3c5e328b29c56f3b30ee68f6802dca0820823b627622e55f53238690525d1d19df2a59cb57f9d80a1bb2e99da37fb7d963ee16ee
+SHA512 (Image-ExifTool-12.26.tar.gz) = 15bbff738e151d3ed5c77a17c99ded6cc3da2050fe7df94c42aea544aa31d7f539d70d07fd5336ae018af05b7f168712f1367046d8004861fce58442c03f82bd