diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2d4ec62..2cedfb1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ rdiscount-1.6.3.2.gem
 /rdiscount-2.0.7.3.gem
 /rdiscount-2.1.7.gem
 /rdiscount-2.1.7.1.gem
+/rdiscount-2.1.8.gem
diff --git a/rubygem-rdiscount.spec b/rubygem-rdiscount.spec
index 05392e5..1ce3974 100644
--- a/rubygem-rdiscount.spec
+++ b/rubygem-rdiscount.spec
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 %global gem_name rdiscount
 
-Summary: Fast Implementation of Gruber's Markdown in C
+# update to corresponding system libmarkdown 2.1.8,
+# markdown 2.2 is currently not included in Fedora (May 18 2016)
+
+Summary: Converts documents in Markdown syntax to HTML
 Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
-Version: 2.1.7.1
-Release: 10%{?dist}
+Version: 2.1.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Group: Development/Languages
 License: ASL 1.1
 URL: http://github.com/rtomayko/rdiscount
@@ -22,9 +25,11 @@ Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 
 
 %description
-Description: Discount is an implementation of John Gruber's Markdown markup
-language in C. It implements all of the language described in the markdown
-syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.
+Description: RDiscount converts documents in Markdown syntax to HTML.
+
+It uses the excellent Discount processor by David Loren Parsons for this
+purpose, and thereby inherits Discount’s numerous useful extensions to the
+Markdown language.
 
 #--
 
@@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ gem spec %{SOURCE0} -l --ruby | sed -e 's|,|,\n|g' > %{gem_name}.gemspec
 sed -i ext/extconf.rb \
 	-e '\@check_sizeof@s| == 4|== size|'
 
-# Remove files in discount-2.1.7
+# Remove files in discount-2.1.8
 cat >> discount_files<<EOF
 Csio.c
 amalloc.c
@@ -163,6 +168,10 @@ popd
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 18 2016 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 2.1.8-1
+- Update to 2.1.8
+- Change summary and description tag
+
 * Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.7.1-10
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9bbe55a..fa6cdc3 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4840597da76ec33991ee60190b5dbdb7  rdiscount-2.1.7.1.gem
+da322524ab41eba212a901d697e7814e  rdiscount-2.1.8.gem