diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 81daa6c..4b4fa46 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ cmake-2.8.2.tar.gz
 /cmake-2.8.8-rc1.tar.gz
 /cmake-2.8.8-rc2.tar.gz
 /cmake-2.8.8.tar.gz
+/cmake-2.8.9-rc1.tar.gz
diff --git a/cmake-pkgconfig.patch b/cmake-pkgconfig.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dfea69..0000000
--- a/cmake-pkgconfig.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-commit 8bd38d7070b1cec6ed27b71d0359f1b2ccd1e1c8
-Author: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
-Date:   Fri Apr 13 08:50:49 2012 +0200
-
-    FindPkgConfig.cmake: fix documented output variable no longer set (#13125)
-    
-    The real fix is from Yury G. Kudryashov while I added the surrounding cleanups.
-
-diff --git a/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake b/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake
-index 5d93ab1..30aab45 100644
---- a/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake
-+++ b/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake
-@@ -13,11 +13,10 @@
- # When the 'QUIET' argument is set, no status messages will be printed.
- #
- # It sets the following variables:
--#   PKG_CONFIG_FOUND          ... true if pkg-config works on the system
-+#   PKG_CONFIG_FOUND          ... if pkg-config executable was found
- #   PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE     ... pathname of the pkg-config program
- #   PKG_CONFIG_VERSION_STRING ... the version of the pkg-config program found
- #                                 (since CMake 2.8.8)
--#   PKG_CONFIG_FOUND          ... if pkg-config executable was found
- #
- # For the following variables two sets of values exist; first one is the
- # common one and has the given PREFIX. The second set contains flags
-@@ -104,6 +103,11 @@ find_package_handle_standard_args(PkgConfig
-                                   REQUIRED_VARS PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE
-                                   VERSION_VAR PKG_CONFIG_VERSION_STRING)
- 
-+# This is needed because the module name is "PkgConfig" but the name of
-+# this variable has always been PKG_CONFIG_FOUND so this isn't automatically
-+# handled by FPHSA.
-+set(PKG_CONFIG_FOUND "${PKGCONFIG_FOUND}")
-+
- # Unsets the given variables
- macro(_pkgconfig_unset var)
-   set(${var} "" CACHE INTERNAL "")
-diff --git a/Tests/CMakeOnly/AllFindModules/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/CMakeOnly/AllFindModules/CMakeLists.txt
-index 6604208..fc65e58 100644
---- a/Tests/CMakeOnly/AllFindModules/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/Tests/CMakeOnly/AllFindModules/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ endmacro(check_version_string)
- # reported.
- 
- foreach(VTEST ALSA ARMADILLO BZIP2 CUPS CURL EXPAT FREETYPE GETTEXT GIT HSPELL
--        JASPER LIBXML2 LIBXSLT PERL PostgreSQL TIFF ZLIB)
-+        JASPER LIBXML2 LIBXSLT PERL PKG_CONFIG PostgreSQL TIFF ZLIB)
-     check_version_string(${VTEST} ${VTEST}_VERSION_STRING)
- endforeach(VTEST)
- 
-@@ -82,4 +82,3 @@ endforeach(VTEST)
- 
- check_version_string(PYTHONINTERP PYTHON_VERSION_STRING)
- check_version_string(SUBVERSION Subversion_VERSION_SVN)
--check_version_string(PKGCONFIG PKG_CONFIG_VERSION_STRING)
diff --git a/cmake.spec b/cmake.spec
index c24add4..f04c3c3 100644
--- a/cmake.spec
+++ b/cmake.spec
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 # Set to bcond_with or use --without gui to disable qt4 gui build
 %bcond_without gui
 # Set to RC version if building RC, else %{nil}
-%define rcver %{nil}
+%define rcver -rc1
 
 Name:           cmake
-Version:        2.8.8
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Version:        2.8.9
+Release:        0.1.rc1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Cross-platform make system
 
 Group:          Development/Tools
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ Source0:        http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-%{version}%{?rcver}.tar.gz
 Source2:        macros.cmake
 # Patch to find DCMTK in Fedora (bug #720140)
 Patch0:         cmake-dcmtk.patch
-# (modified) Upstream patch to fix setting PKG_CONFIG_FOUND (bug #812188)
-Patch1:         cmake-pkgconfig.patch
 # Patch to fix RindRuby vendor settings
 # http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12965
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822796
@@ -81,7 +79,6 @@ The %{name}-gui package contains the Qt based GUI for CMake.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}%{?rcver}
 %patch0 -p1 -b .dcmtk
-%patch1 -p1 -b .pkgconfig
 %patch2 -p1 -b .findruby
 %patch3 -p1 -b .findpostgresql
 
@@ -180,6 +177,10 @@ update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 10 2012 Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> - 2.8.9-0.1.rc1
+- Update to 2.8.9 RC 1
+- Drop pkgconfig patch
+
 * Thu Jul 5 2012 Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> 2.8.8-5
 - Add patch to fix FindPostgreSQL (bug 828467)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d4a3eb7..0ae48c4 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-ba74b22c788a0c8547976b880cd02b17  cmake-2.8.8.tar.gz
+ee9facc9a2647d9fa1c35be5f9bb5bef  cmake-2.8.9-rc1.tar.gz