diff --git a/0001-skip-kernel-buildin-modules.patch b/0001-skip-kernel-buildin-modules.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c7d07f5..0000000
--- a/0001-skip-kernel-buildin-modules.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-From df5e18b8d7c8359b48bc133bfa29734934d18160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com>
-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:20:38 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #2469 from
- rear/skip-kernel-builtin-modules-issue2414
-
-In 400_copy_modules.sh skip copying kernel modules that are builtin modules.
-The new behaviour is that when modules are listed in modules.builtin
-and are also shown by modinfo then those modules are now skipped.
-Before for such modules the modules file(s) would have been included
-in the recovery system.
-See https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2414
----
- usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh | 12 ++++++++++--
- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh b/usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh
-index d8d733d2..641b7f83 100644
---- a/usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh
-+++ b/usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh
-@@ -133,8 +133,13 @@ for dummy in "once" ; do
-         module=${module#.o}
-         # Strip trailing ".ko" if there:
-         module=${module#.ko}
--        # Continue with the next module if the current one does not exist:
-+        # Continue with the next module if the current one does not exist as a module file:
-         modinfo $module 1>/dev/null || continue
-+        # Continue with the next module if the current one is a kernel builtin module
-+        # cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2414#issuecomment-668632798
-+        # Quoting the grep search value is mandatory here ($module might be empty or blank),
-+        # cf. "Beware of the emptiness" in https://github.com/rear/rear/wiki/Coding-Style
-+        grep -q "$( echo $module | tr '_-' '..' )" /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/modules.builtin && continue
-         # Resolve module dependencies:
-         # Get the module file plus the module files of other needed modules.
-         # This is currently only a "best effort" attempt because
-@@ -166,7 +171,10 @@ done
- 
- # Remove those modules that are specified in the EXCLUDE_MODULES array:
- for exclude_module in "${EXCLUDE_MODULES[@]}" ; do
--    # Continue with the next module if the current one does not exist:
-+    # Continue with the next module only if the current one does not exist as a module file
-+    # but do not continue with the next module if the current one is a kernel builtin module
-+    # so when a module file exists that gets removed regardless if it is also a builtin module
-+    # cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2414#issuecomment-669115481
-     modinfo $exclude_module 1>/dev/null || continue
-     # In this case it is ignored when a module exists but 'modinfo -F filename' cannot show its filename
-     # because then it is assumed that also no module file had been copied above:
diff --git a/2.7.tar.gz b/2.7.tar.gz
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diff --git a/rear-2.6.tar.gz b/rear-2.6.tar.gz
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diff --git a/rear.spec b/rear.spec
index 7682009..aade605 100644
--- a/rear.spec
+++ b/rear.spec
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
 %define debug_package %{nil}
 
 Name:           rear
-Version:        2.6
+Version:        2.7
 Release:        1
 License:        GPLv3
 Summary:        Relax-and-Recover is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution
 URL:            http://relax-and-recover.org/
-Source0:        https://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/files/rear/%{version}/rear-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://github.com/rear/rear/archive/refs/tags/%{version}.tar.gz
 # Add cronjob and systemd timer as documentation
 Source1:        rear.cron
 Source2:        rear.service
 Source3:        rear.timer
-# https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/df5e18b8d7c8359b48bc133bfa29734934d18160
-Patch0:         0001-skip-kernel-buildin-modules.patch
 ExclusiveArch:  x86_64 loongarch64
 Requires:       binutils ethtool gzip iputils parted tar openssl gawk attr bc crontabs iproute
 Requires:       genisoimage util-linux
@@ -74,6 +72,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %doc %{_mandir}/man8/rear.8*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 04 2024 Paul Thomas <paulthomas100199@gmail.com> - 2.7-1
+- update to version 2.7
+
 * Tue Oct 17 2023 yaoxin <yao_xin001@hoperun.com> - 2.6-1
 - Upgrade to 2.6