diff --git a/file-5.31-mo-file-recognition.patch b/file-5.31-mo-file-recognition.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33ad40e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/file-5.31-mo-file-recognition.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 2e5e9e16a4847b2e60cabc70e6b9bd7d633cb68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
+Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:21:24 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Strength decreased in magic file magic/Magdir/dump for new-fs
+ dump file (little endian) to correctly recognize '*.mo' GNU message catalog
+ (little endian).
+
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226215
+
+Upstream commit: https://github.com/file/file/commit/2e5e9e16a4847b2e60cabc70e6b9bd7d633cb68a
+---
+ magic/Magdir/dump | 4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/magic/Magdir/dump b/magic/Magdir/dump
+index 64742b7a..c5711661 100644
+--- a/magic/Magdir/dump
++++ b/magic/Magdir/dump
+ >0	use	old-dump-be
+ 
+ 24	lelong	60012		new-fs dump file (little endian),
++# to correctly recognize '*.mo' GNU message catalog (little endian)
++!:strength - 15
+ >0	use	\^new-dump-be
+ 
+ 24	lelong	60011		old-fs dump file (little endian),
+-- 
+2.13.3
+
diff --git a/file.spec b/file.spec
index b111631..b009ead 100644
--- a/file.spec
+++ b/file.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary: A utility for determining file types
 Name: file
 Version: 5.29
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Release: 5%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Applications/File
 Source0: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Patch17: file-5.24-varied.patch
 # picked from upstream
 Patch102: file-5.29-short-sector.patch
 Patch103: file-5.30-python-utf8.patch
+Patch104: file-5.31-mo-file-recognition.patch
 
 URL: http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
 Requires: file-libs = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -210,6 +211,9 @@ cd %{py3dir}
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 25 2017 Marek Cermak <macermak@redhat.com> - 5.29-5
+- fixed recognition of gnu message catalog (.mo) files (#1226215)
+
 * Wed Apr 05 2017 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 5.29-4
 - fix utf-8 conversion in Python 2 bindings (#1433364)