diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 05ffad8..4793edd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
 /libwps-0.4.6.tar.xz
 /libwps-0.4.7.tar.xz
 /libwps-0.4.8.tar.xz
+/libwps-0.4.9.tar.xz
diff --git a/libwps.spec b/libwps.spec
index 9c0ca3d..4dc41fa 100644
--- a/libwps.spec
+++ b/libwps.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global apiversion 0.4
 
 Name:		libwps
-Version:	0.4.8
-Release:	2%{?dist}
+Version:	0.4.9
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	A library for import of Microsoft Works documents
 
 License:	LGPLv2+ or MPLv2.0
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ install -m 0644 wks2*.1 wps2*.1 %{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man1
 %doc docs/doxygen/html
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 25 2018 David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com> - 0.4.9-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.8-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index da96388..220736f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libwps-0.4.8.tar.xz) = bf5d7aeb6f06e87f15ec8e911fb6436fb4e14839123db71488638f0e658034ad4ea8849ed83926af2fab9b50a7ef7410199d4a1102abc63c83d37bf1966a4afb
+SHA512 (libwps-0.4.9.tar.xz) = 8703e60837c525ab24e40bb3e2e25244e9f4d2231699373b28d86430f6d7f818a5ba32de08f19febdb4f917f1a90e3b27f95e7d3200ca2d4a9101c262b37a30d