diff --git a/osbs-client.spec b/osbs-client.spec
index 4ddfbf2..62dc024 100644
--- a/osbs-client.spec
+++ b/osbs-client.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-%if (0%{?fedora} < 28)
-# tests are failling in f28 with new version of pytest
+%if 0%{?fedora}
 # rhel/epel has no flexmock, pytest-capturelog
 %global with_check 1
 %endif
 
-%global commit 8260985f2a8f24a59bfdb5405a5f9303191bdfb7
+%global commit eebad5b6aa97766d552d83af6f2bb830a21d2de4
 %global shortcommit %(c=%{commit}; echo ${c:0:7})
 
 # set to 0 to create a normal release
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@
 
 %if 0%{?dev_release}
 %global postrelease dev
-%global release 2
+%global release 1
 %else
 %global postrelease 0
 %global release 1
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@
 %global osbs_obsolete_vr 0.14-2
 
 Name:           osbs-client
-Version:        0.52
+Version:        0.53
 %if "x%{postrelease}" != "x0"
 Release:        %{release}.%{postrelease}.git.%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
 %else
@@ -42,9 +41,9 @@ Requires:       python3-requests-kerberos
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
 %if 0%{?with_check}
+BuildRequires:  git-core
 BuildRequires:  python3-dateutil
 BuildRequires:  python3-pytest
-BuildRequires:  python3-pytest-capturelog
 BuildRequires:  python3-flexmock
 BuildRequires:  python3-six
 BuildRequires:  python3-dockerfile-parse
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@ Requires:       python3-setuptools
 Requires:       python3-six
 Requires:       krb5-workstation
 Requires:       python3-PyYAML
+Requires:       git-core
 
 Provides:       python3-osbs = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      python3-osbs < %{osbs_obsolete_vr}
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ This package contains osbs Python 3 bindings.
 # Remove this test, it tries to hit httpbin.org which fails the build in koji
 rm -f tests/test_http.py
 
+# Tests using git clone are failing in koji: skip them.
+sed -i '/^def test_get_repo_info(/i @pytest.mark.skip()' tests/test_utils.py
+sed -i '/^def test_checkout_git_repo(/i @pytest.mark.skip()' tests/test_utils.py
+
 %build
 %py3_build
 
@@ -121,6 +125,10 @@ py.test-3 -vv tests
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 20 2019 Athos Ribeiro <athoscr@fedoraproject.org> - 0.53-1
+- Update to latest upstream
+- Re-enable test suite
+
 * Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.52-1
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild