diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a4c290a..9e0b831 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-/vips-8.4.4.tar.gz
 /vips-8.5.9.tar.gz
+/vips-8.6.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9897698..75789a6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (vips-8.5.9.tar.gz) = 1cb825d35d18c41e5c22883ad0f00b3ba3e858ede42c4085edc4a4ec14122bbc453a579eca8e236eab0edbfcc255bc1d2246618259fbb8677df0e015c5b5e0ac
+SHA512 (vips-8.6.0.tar.gz) = 3d199698942625020fd52fda2201997369136f231420a53337a45c31171db41029a9d47e031198bf2e35e696a6ead204b2e7ec8ff58f02b275b1e50a6f146bb1
diff --git a/vips.spec b/vips.spec
index bb3d226..9750e03 100644
--- a/vips.spec
+++ b/vips.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-%global vips_version_base 8.5
-%global vips_version %{vips_version_base}.9
+%global vips_version_base 8.6
+%global vips_version %{vips_version_base}.0
 %global vips_soname_major 42
 
 Name:		vips
 Version:	%{vips_version}
-Release:	2%{?dist}
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	C/C++ library for processing large images
 
 License:	LGPLv2+
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ HTML and PDF formats.
 %setup -q
 
 # make the version string consistent for multiarch
+# should be unneeded after https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/0f69f0808efbe72bab464ee07966d321e9920c7e
 export FAKE_BUILD_DATE=$(date -r %{SOURCE0})
 sed -i "s/\\(VIPS_VERSION_STRING=\\)\$VIPS_VERSION-\`date\`/\\1\"\$VIPS_VERSION-$FAKE_BUILD_DATE\"/g" \
 	configure
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ sed -i 's|sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="|sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/%{_lib} %{_l
 # https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/pull/212#issuecomment-68177930
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -ftree-vectorize"
 export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -ftree-vectorize"
-%configure --disable-static --enable-gtk-doc
+%configure --disable-static --enable-gtk-doc --enable-pyvips7 --enable-pyvips8
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 
@@ -136,6 +137,9 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT \( -name '*.la' -o -name '*.a' \) -exec rm -f {} ';'
 
+# https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/834
+mv ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/vips-8.5 ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/vips-8.6
+
 # delete doc (we will get it later with %%doc)
 rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/doc/vips
 
@@ -193,6 +197,9 @@ find ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{python3_sitearch} \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Dec 17 2017 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@backtick.net> - 8.6.0-1
+- New release
+
 * Thu Nov 23 2017 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@backtick.net> - 8.5.9-2
 - Rename python-gobject-base dependency to python2-gobject-base
 - Don't version dependencies on python*-gobject-base