diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6580ff0..5161318 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 /rubygem-hocon-7defef5.tar.gz
 /hocon-1.2.4.gem
 /hocon-1.2.5.gem
+/hocon-1.3.0.gem
+/ruby-hocon-1.3.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/rubygem-hocon.spec b/rubygem-hocon.spec
index ca7a927..582577f 100644
--- a/rubygem-hocon.spec
+++ b/rubygem-hocon.spec
@@ -8,13 +8,22 @@
 %endif
 
 Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
-Version: 1.2.5
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Version: 1.3.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: HOCON Config Library
 License: ASL 2.0
 URL: https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon
 Source0: https://rubygems.org/gems/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
 
+# SOURCE1 contains the upstream tag of the project from github
+# in particular this includes the spec directory which was not
+# included in the gemfile.
+# https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon/issues/65
+# was originally resolved.
+# However the rspec files were then removed again for a bizare reason.
+# https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-2942
+Source1: https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon/archive/%{version}/ruby-hocon-%{version}.tar.gz
+
 BuildRequires: ruby(release)
 BuildRequires: rubygems-devel
 BuildRequires: ruby >= 1.9.0
@@ -44,6 +53,9 @@ gem unpack %{SOURCE0}
 gem spec %{SOURCE0} -l --ruby > %{gem_name}.gemspec
 sed -i 's/\/usr\/bin\/env ruby/\/usr\/bin\/ruby/' bin/hocon
 
+# unpack only the spec files from SOURCE1.
+tar zxf %{SOURCE1} ruby-hocon-%{version}/spec --strip-components 1
+
 %build
 # Create the gem as gem install only works on a gem file
 gem build %{gem_name}.gemspec
@@ -81,6 +93,9 @@ rspec spec/
 %doc %{gem_instdir}/README.md
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 8 2019 Steve Traylen <steve.traylen@cern.ch> - 1.3.0-1
+- Update to 1.3.0
+
 * Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.5-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index a9d943c..e08055f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-SHA512 (hocon-1.2.5.gem) = 7d2d86c28edd6ed6dd99358558093cd224b9922bcbcdd2e95e23134ef0e9a2bae6129e7273435032850b672094e77f8f5b6d8cfeec03762b39ed6b63fc5fb5dd
+SHA512 (ruby-hocon-1.3.0.tar.gz) = 67a69b516197b4a0e64c275fe4b930a3b1128ef1949c47263ba9a20bd8397152a2a5dce0c64ce54dbcf7bd3c81d77aa2fb450e12f5aa7bacb0c85e61083904f6
+SHA512 (hocon-1.3.0.gem) = bff9527e00f12064a6c10c5fb424e8340b31bd171920f9c940ee03f9b29de50a4e6451372769485728ec83a2bf6dc9adf20a92594d7a19ab584d3a25fc14633d