diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ccfb1a4..926e001 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /BackupPC-XS-0.53.tar.gz
 /BackupPC-XS-0.54.tar.gz
 /BackupPC-XS-0.55.tar.gz
+/BackupPC-XS-0.56.tar.gz
diff --git a/BackupPC-XS.spec b/BackupPC-XS.spec
index 0b9652c..acdb02a 100644
--- a/BackupPC-XS.spec
+++ b/BackupPC-XS.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           BackupPC-XS
-Version:        0.55
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        0.56
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Implementation of various BackupPC functions in a perl-callable module
 
 License:        GPLv3+ and (GPL+ or Artistic) and zlib
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ make test
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jun 19 2017 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> - 0.56-1
+- Update to latest upstream release.
+
 * Wed Jun 07 2017 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 0.55-2
 - Perl 5.26 re-rebuild of bootstrapped packages
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 84379b7..0794b54 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (BackupPC-XS-0.55.tar.gz) = cb193448ae9d311e9da55ef2d00755842cb94954175bc7864dab29d3728889f10d6393f709801a7ff775d02de4996197785e1b9f22535f6e441f3931cb29dacf
+SHA512 (BackupPC-XS-0.56.tar.gz) = a501a2b11bc58d5ed93e887e3c11a78b794da5525ec9942c8ade59f3f814e26564e7826f6131631f4c9343acd7cc06fcff56d6c93f435eb49d949b1bef495649