diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a8b6984..e5e3aa5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@
 /radcli-1.2.5.tar.gz
 /radcli-1.2.7.tar.gz
 /radcli-1.2.7.tar.gz.sig
+/radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz
+/radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig
diff --git a/radcli-1.2.7-random.patch b/radcli-1.2.7-random.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 201dac1..0000000
--- a/radcli-1.2.7-random.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/lib/sendserver.c b/lib/sendserver.c
-index ac5a35f..dce17f4 100644
---- a/lib/sendserver.c
-+++ b/lib/sendserver.c
-@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
- #include "rc-md5.h"
- #include "rc-hmac.h"
- 
-+#if defined(HAVE_GNUTLS)
-+# include <gnutls/gnutls.h>
-+# include <gnutls/crypto.h>
-+#endif
-+
- #define SCLOSE(fd) if (sfuncs->close_fd) sfuncs->close_fd(fd)
- 
- static void rc_random_vector(unsigned char *);
-@@ -338,7 +343,11 @@ static void rc_random_vector(unsigned char *vector)
- {
- 	int randno;
- 	int i;
--#if defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY)
-+#if defined(HAVE_GNUTLS)
-+	if (gnutls_rnd(GNUTLS_RND_NONCE, vector, AUTH_VECTOR_LEN) >= 0) {
-+		return;
-+	}
-+#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY)
- 	if (getentropy(vector, AUTH_VECTOR_LEN) >= 0) {
- 		return;
- 	}			/* else fall through */
diff --git a/radcli.spec b/radcli.spec
index fba8b85..bade8f9 100644
--- a/radcli.spec
+++ b/radcli.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: RADIUS protocol client library
 Name: radcli
-Version: 1.2.7
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.2.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 #Breakdown of licenses. Under MIT license:
 # lib/avpair.c, lib/buildreq.c, lib/clientid.c, lib/config.c, lib/dict.c,
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ URL: http://radcli.github.io/radcli/
   sed 's/\./_/g')}
 
 Source0: https://github.com/radcli/radcli/releases/download/%{name}_%{myversion}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1: radcli-1.2.7-random.patch
 
 #BuildRequires: libtool, automake, autoconf, gettext-devel
 BuildRequires: nettle-devel >= 2.7.1
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ and radiusclient-ng.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch1 -p1 -b .random
 rm -f lib/md5.c
 sed -i -e 's|sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="[^"]\+|& %{_libdir}|g' configure
 
@@ -118,6 +116,9 @@ cp -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/dictionary %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{na
 %{_libdir}/libradiusclient-ng.so
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun 30 2017 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> - 1.2.8-1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.7-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e6261a0..95ef6d9 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA512 (radcli-1.2.7.tar.gz) = 622ad71583e0d8431caaed9c99b3f593736e124429c5b7034f50cb6025bac832ba3477d79168a19557ee0afc5bcc5a4d62fbd694081555ad5ff3035e6803c236
-SHA512 (radcli-1.2.7.tar.gz.sig) = cc7b03ec93b97228e44533efdeea6e2667e3c56bbbea121b582361291ac3e571452731cfef4d4a7b4c6bedf6fa56d4bae496ac98b09cb3af86183b74a0df7417
+SHA512 (radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz) = cf4b7c8f62651c01a7408cc57e97edcd71a3ee0353368e571469ae2a13b7b2066f400a4fe0d49fe75b32e03473c02924d4cc61c432e3bd9d5eb4b11df67bf7a1
+SHA512 (radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig) = dacdb8684c4d83247d47953d0c0681890f6ae06a8f7d8a20970e1468a0de22cd703884d0fcbd40286472ea6047185885115f34308d61f8f4c2cede9427805f7b