diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1590b44..9312590 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ papi-4.1.0.tar.gz
 /papi-5.4.3.tar.gz
 /papi-5.5.0.tar.gz
 /papi-5.5.1.tar.gz
+/papi-5.6.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/papi.spec b/papi.spec
index d472ea2..53d5772 100644
--- a/papi.spec
+++ b/papi.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %bcond_with bundled_libpfm
 Summary: Performance Application Programming Interface
 Name: papi
-Version: 5.5.1
-Release: 6%{?dist}
+Version: 5.6.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Development/System
 Requires: papi-libs = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 /usr/share/papi/run_tests*
 /usr/share/papi/ctests
 /usr/share/papi/ftests
+/usr/share/papi/validation_tests
 /usr/share/papi/components
 /usr/share/papi/testlib
 
@@ -153,6 +154,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_libdir}/*.a
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Dec 21 2017 William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> - 5.6.0-1
+- Rebase to papi-5.6.0.
+
 * Mon Aug 28 2017 Honggang LI <honli@redhat.com> - 5.5.1-6
 - Disable RDMA support on ARM32
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8f09459..2e5e1cd 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-86a8a6f3d0f34cd83251da3514aae15d  papi-5.5.1.tar.gz
+SHA512 (papi-5.6.0.tar.gz) = b2a1536f220081d08ee9bc94fddbf422e36c60c55b0536bc43dec074bdaf23afaedbdd755b7e6af25c4c0ce582cc7ad4c59e2adc1801e75c482d472b080439be