diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cbbc28c..04d7471 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ Python-2.7.tar.bz2
 /Python-2.7.14.tar.xz
 /Python-2.7.15.tar.xz
 /Python-2.7.16.tar.xz
+/Python-2.7.17.tar.xz
diff --git a/869652b426bb34a30ce7b39f0a0ac242ed5b1016.patch b/869652b426bb34a30ce7b39f0a0ac242ed5b1016.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a8a492..0000000
--- a/869652b426bb34a30ce7b39f0a0ac242ed5b1016.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-From 869652b426bb34a30ce7b39f0a0ac242ed5b1016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:11:30 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] [2.7] bpo-35605: Fix documentation build for sphinx<1.6
- (GH-12413)
-
-(cherry picked from commit dfc8fc15fa989acba3c372572e52bbcb5ab38a37)
----
- Doc/conf.py                                                 | 2 +-
- Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py                          | 6 +++++-
- .../Documentation/2018-12-30-09-56-13.bpo-35605.gAWt32.rst  | 1 +
- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
- create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-12-30-09-56-13.bpo-35605.gAWt32.rst
-
-diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
-index 557fe1e72f27..df76b943b794 100644
---- a/Doc/conf.py
-+++ b/Doc/conf.py
-@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
- 
- # Custom sidebar templates, filenames relative to this file.
- html_sidebars = {
--    'index': 'indexsidebar.html',
-+    'index': ['indexsidebar.html'],
- }
- 
- # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages.
-diff --git a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
-index 6378f76bdc2c..1ec88c23e01b 100644
---- a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
-+++ b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
-@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
- from docutils import nodes, utils
- from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive
- 
--from sphinx.util import status_iterator
- from sphinx.util.nodes import split_explicit_title
- from sphinx.writers.html import HTMLTranslator
- from sphinx.writers.latex import LaTeXTranslator
-@@ -173,6 +172,11 @@ def get_target_uri(self, docname, typ=None):
-         return ''  # no URIs
- 
-     def write(self, *ignored):
-+        try:  # sphinx>=1.6
-+            from sphinx.util import status_iterator
-+        except ImportError:  # sphinx<1.6
-+            status_iterator = self.status_iterator
-+
-         writer = TextWriter(self)
-         for label in status_iterator(pydoc_topic_labels,
-                                      'building topics... ',
-diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-12-30-09-56-13.bpo-35605.gAWt32.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-12-30-09-56-13.bpo-35605.gAWt32.rst
-new file mode 100644
-index 000000000000..cbc0f1e07f31
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-12-30-09-56-13.bpo-35605.gAWt32.rst
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+Fix documentation build for sphinx<1.6.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/python2-docs.spec b/python2-docs.spec
index 90cd6fa..4b8da4d 100644
--- a/python2-docs.spec
+++ b/python2-docs.spec
@@ -2,17 +2,14 @@
 
 Name:			python2-docs
 # The Version needs to be in-sync with the "python2" package:
-Version:		2.7.16
-Release:		3%{?dist}
+Version:		2.7.17
+Release:		1%{?dist}
 Summary:		Documentation for the Python 2 programming language
 License:		Python
 URL:			https://www.python.org/
 
 Source:			https://www.python.org/ftp/python/%{version}/Python-%{version}.tar.xz
 
-# Make it build with Sphinx 2
-Patch1:			https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/869652b426bb34a30ce7b39f0a0ac242ed5b1016.patch
-
 # this changes the makefile so that build requires are used instead of
 # hard coded svn checkout to get sphinx
 Patch19: python-2.7-texinfomakefile.patch
@@ -99,6 +96,9 @@ linkchecker \
 %license	LICENSE
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 20 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 2.7.17-1
+- Update to 2.7.17
+
 * Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.16-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index f0a0c91..993cab5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (Python-2.7.16.tar.xz) = 16e814e8dcffc707b595ca2919bd2fa3db0d15794c63d977364652c4a5b92e90e72b8c9e1cc83b5020398bd90a1b397dbdd7cb931c49f1aa4af6ef95414b43e0
+SHA512 (Python-2.7.17.tar.xz) = 2dc19a0b0d818c71429dae94783e58b2aac0fa31f5faa1e840cac06245a59932ecc4658d913515736601bcf70a78c9ec60367aed75f4567d1e41ff3bb104da9a