diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e26f219..6c944f2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /heat-cfntools-1.2.3.tar.gz
 /heat-cfntools-1.2.6.tar.gz
 /heat-cfntools-1.2.7.tar.gz
+/heat-cfntools-1.2.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/heat-cfntools.spec b/heat-cfntools.spec
index 203500e..ad00006 100644
--- a/heat-cfntools.spec
+++ b/heat-cfntools.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: heat-cfntools
-Version: 1.2.7
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Version: 1.2.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Tools required to be installed on Heat provisioned cloud instances
 Group: System Environment/Base
 License: ASL 2.0
@@ -22,10 +22,8 @@ Requires: coreutils
 Requires: curl
 Requires: gzip
 Requires: python-setuptools
-Requires: rubygems
 Requires: shadow-utils
 Requires: tar
-Requires: wget
 Requires: yum
 
 %description
@@ -50,6 +48,11 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sharedstatedir}/%{name}
 %dir %{_sharedstatedir}/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 28 2014 Jeff Peeler <jpeeler@redhat.com> 1.2.8-1
+- rebase to 1.2.8
+- remove wget dependency as it's no longer required
+- remove rubygems dependency as it's too big for non-ruby users
+
 * Tue Aug 19 2014 Jeff Peeler <jpeeler@redhat.com> 1.2.7-4
 - fix dependencies to include external commands (rhbz#1130964)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 54ff525..a42c7c0 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-daac95d536499506940907169c6d1667  heat-cfntools-1.2.7.tar.gz
+0d5f8e7685e7f9a34dbd2552ffa40984  heat-cfntools-1.2.8.tar.gz