diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e5e3aa5..77a2edf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@
 /radcli-1.2.7.tar.gz.sig
 /radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz
 /radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig
+/radcli-1.2.9.tar.gz
+/radcli-1.2.9.tar.gz.sig
diff --git a/radcli.spec b/radcli.spec
index feea7e4..7714447 100644
--- a/radcli.spec
+++ b/radcli.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: RADIUS protocol client library
 Name: radcli
-Version: 1.2.8
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.2.9
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 #Breakdown of licenses. Under MIT license:
 # lib/avpair.c, lib/buildreq.c, lib/clientid.c, lib/config.c, lib/dict.c,
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ cp -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/dictionary %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{na
 %{_libdir}/libradiusclient-ng.so
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jan 22 2018 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> - 1.2.9-1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.8-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 95ef6d9..8d11a4d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA512 (radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz) = cf4b7c8f62651c01a7408cc57e97edcd71a3ee0353368e571469ae2a13b7b2066f400a4fe0d49fe75b32e03473c02924d4cc61c432e3bd9d5eb4b11df67bf7a1
-SHA512 (radcli-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig) = dacdb8684c4d83247d47953d0c0681890f6ae06a8f7d8a20970e1468a0de22cd703884d0fcbd40286472ea6047185885115f34308d61f8f4c2cede9427805f7b
+SHA512 (radcli-1.2.9.tar.gz) = 5edf75dbfe5830d69aac2ba1e48ca7b96fc3a9ae7b297befa4c78d6ceb526b2257ea98c1199a6f78d90f7dd2b6a4c12cd0c095056b0aadf451470717237e1c1e
+SHA512 (radcli-1.2.9.tar.gz.sig) = 95850f2a934ecaae94d2702e70ee2706e18615f2feb606c1dd827c3059a30ca1265e0a310dddf096c64268ddf9b50993b1441598ba0934cbf9f4aef8f5f7c6e7