diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a9f4efa..0886daf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ gearmand-0.14.tar.gz
 /gearmand-1.1.17.tar.gz
 /gearmand-1.1.18.tar.gz
 /gearmand-1.1.19.1.tar.gz
+/gearmand-1.1.20.tar.gz
diff --git a/273.patch b/273.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c65149..0000000
--- a/273.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-From d6507e52adcf851d8888b93f9905f0fad1052af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Robin Lee <cheeselee@fedoraproject.org>
-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 02:37:42 +0800
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix crashing of tests when '-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS' is
- given
-
-If 'vec' is a vector, calling 'vec[0]' will crash the program if
-'vec' is empty and '-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS' given in CXXFLAGS.
-
-Fixes https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/272
----
- libtest/cmdline.h | 4 ++--
- tests/hostile.cc  | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/libtest/cmdline.h b/libtest/cmdline.h
-index 692363f6..3503bada 100644
---- a/libtest/cmdline.h
-+++ b/libtest/cmdline.h
-@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class Application {
- 
-   const char* stdout_c_str() const
-   {
--    return &_stdout_buffer[0];
-+    return _stdout_buffer.size() ? &_stdout_buffer[0] : NULL;
-   }
- 
-   libtest::vchar_t stderr_result() const
-@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class Application {
- 
-   const char* stderr_c_str() const
-   {
--    return &_stderr_buffer[0];
-+    return _stderr_buffer.size() ? &_stderr_buffer[0] : NULL;
-   }
- 
-   size_t stderr_result_length() const
-diff --git a/tests/hostile.cc b/tests/hostile.cc
-index c4c0487d..c7686206 100644
---- a/tests/hostile.cc
-+++ b/tests/hostile.cc
-@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ extern "C" {
-         gearman_return_t rc;
-         void *value= gearman_client_do(&client, WORKER_FUNCTION_NAME,
-                                        NULL,
--                                       &payload[0], 
-+                                       payload.size() ? &payload[0] : NULL,
-                                        payload.size() ? random() % payload.size() : 0,
-                                        NULL, &rc);
- 
diff --git a/gearmand.spec b/gearmand.spec
index 0f3bf38..19e8639 100644
--- a/gearmand.spec
+++ b/gearmand.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           gearmand
-Version:        1.1.19.1
+Version:        1.1.20
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        A distributed job system
 
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Source1:        gearmand.init
 Source2:        gearmand.sysconfig
 Source3:        gearmand.service
 Patch0:         gearmand-1.1.12-ppc64le.patch
-Patch1:         https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/pull/273.patch
 # Fails to build on PPC.
 # See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/987104 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/987109
 ExcludeArch:    ppc
@@ -26,10 +25,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libmemcached-devel, memcached
 # https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libmemcached-awesome/pull-request/1
 # libmemcached-awesome-devel needs cyrus-sasl-devel
 BuildRequires:  cyrus-sasl-devel
-%if 0%{?rhel} < 9
-# not available in EPEL 9 yet
 BuildRequires:  hiredis-devel
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  gperf
 BuildRequires:  mariadb-connector-c-devel openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpq-devel
@@ -37,16 +33,13 @@ BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 BuildRequires:  systemd
 
 # For %%check
-# https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/278
+# https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/277
 #BuildRequires:  curl-devel
 
 # google perftools available only on these
 %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc64 ppc64le aarch64 %{arm}
-%if 0%{?rhel} < 9
-# not available in EPEL 9 yet
 BuildRequires:  gperftools-devel
 %endif
-%endif
 BuildRequires: make
 Requires(pre):  shadow-utils
 Requires:       procps
@@ -81,9 +74,7 @@ Obsoletes:      libgearman-1.0-devel < %{version}-%{release}
 Development headers for %{name}.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-%patch0 -p1
-%patch1 -p1
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-static --disable-silent-rules --enable-ssl
@@ -103,7 +94,6 @@ install -m 0644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
 
 
 %check
-# https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/279
 # https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/277
 #make test
 
@@ -129,7 +119,7 @@ exit 0
 
 %files
 %license COPYING
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog HACKING THANKS
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog CONTRIBUTING.md README.md THANKS
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/gearmand
 %{_sbindir}/gearmand
 %{_bindir}/gearman
@@ -145,8 +135,7 @@ exit 0
 
 %files -n libgearman-devel
 %license COPYING
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog HACKING THANKS
-%dir %{_includedir}/libgearman
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog CONTRIBUTING.md README.md THANKS
 %{_includedir}/libgearman/
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/gearmand.pc
 %{_libdir}/libgearman.so
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 996d13a..79fdef1 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (gearmand-1.1.19.1.tar.gz) = cbcf85dfd7268aa9acc039eac9505385af3be89eeba48270ddb45739e0ccdcf0d2963d821ccbb6a471396fc9ab2521d096f5d6c2fc3d41b3fb050bd82a795f1f
+SHA512 (gearmand-1.1.20.tar.gz) = 461d1c439b3978edb40a60c6ce7c247bb96fde72ef7446d0904eace3b9ff83c80a58276e05ba79414d23b1eebe491af7dee1bebf3655253241baeee4bdc030c3