diff --git a/globus-common-perl-5.26.patch b/globus-common-perl-5.26.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d14661..0000000
--- a/globus-common-perl-5.26.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a//scripts/Paths.pm.in b//scripts/Paths.pm.in
-index 1459f3064e..a1e18a4ac3 100644
---- a//scripts/Paths.pm.in
-+++ b//scripts/Paths.pm.in
-@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ sub eval_path
-         my $evaluated;
-         eval "\$evaluated = \${$1}";
- 
--        $path =~ s/\${$varname}/$evaluated/g;
-+        $path =~ s/\$\{$varname\}/$evaluated/g;
-         if ($path eq $last)
-         {
-             die "Error evaluating $last\n";
diff --git a/globus-common.spec b/globus-common.spec
index 3612612..9a8a9ba 100644
--- a/globus-common.spec
+++ b/globus-common.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:		globus-common
 %global _name %(tr - _ <<< %{name})
-Version:	17.1
-Release:	6%{?dist}
+Version:	17.2
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	Globus Toolkit - Common Library
 
 License:	ASL 2.0
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ URL:		http://toolkit.globus.org/
 Source:		https://downloads.globus.org/toolkit/gt6/packages/%{_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 #		README file
 Source8:	GLOBUS-CCOMMONLIB
-#		Adapt to perl 5.26 syntax
-#		https://github.com/globus/globus-toolkit/pull/110
-Patch0:		%{name}-perl-5.26.patch
 
 Requires:	perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`perl -V:version`"; echo $version))
 #		Obsolete dropped packages from Globus Toolkit 4.2.1
@@ -108,7 +105,6 @@ Common Library Documentation Files
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{_name}-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 # Reduce overlinking
@@ -208,6 +204,10 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check VERBOSE=1 NO_EXTERNAL_NET=1
 %{?_licensedir: %license GLOBUS_LICENSE}
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 22 2017 Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@physics.uu.se> - 17.2-1
+- GT6 update: Fix regex for perl 5.26 compatibility
+- Drop patch globus-common-perl-5.26.patch (accepted upstream)
+
 * Fri Aug 11 2017 Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@physics.uu.se> - 17.1-6
 - Adapt to perl 5.26 syntax
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index c41dcdf..1d9ce3c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (globus_common-17.1.tar.gz) = 636904ff94d4df6c4e083533b9f6027301f6c3a2133efcbd0c3e43866ce90acbb6296ba3e3c47c1fefc8424d4b9e848d2328130f55e5c8874e397a243722d072
+SHA512 (globus_common-17.2.tar.gz) = c3b5dc2c354ad1f6d39d020caac0216648e1a6884190443160c2824192a7c9bfdcc12c42f31a6c90246bc715b6e5afcb126175d80d83f4854ca06d9a59c9fd31