diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4060696..2222e9d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /noVNC-0.3.tar.gz
 /novnc-0.4.tar.gz
+/v0.5.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/novnc-0.4-call-websockify.patch b/novnc-0.4-call-websockify.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7662696..0000000
--- a/novnc-0.4-call-websockify.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-From 9abeb6faf34c6413398559a203f82e1de459191c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Adam Young <ayoung@redhat.com>
-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:10:45 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] call the websockify executable.
-
----
- utils/launch.sh |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/utils/launch.sh b/utils/launch.sh
-index 8afd6e4..baaa472 100755
---- a/utils/launch.sh
-+++ b/utils/launch.sh
-@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ else
- fi
- 
- echo "Starting webserver and WebSockets proxy on port ${PORT}"
--${HERE}/wsproxy.py --web ${WEB} ${CERT:+--cert ${CERT}} ${PORT} ${VNC_DEST} &
-+${HERE}/websockify --web ${WEB} ${CERT:+--cert ${CERT}} ${PORT} ${VNC_DEST} &
- proxy_pid="$!"
- sleep 1
- if ! ps -p ${proxy_pid} >/dev/null; then
--- 
-1.7.10.2
-
diff --git a/novnc.spec b/novnc.spec
index ed02015..1c862d0 100644
--- a/novnc.spec
+++ b/novnc.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 Name:           novnc
-Version:        0.4
-Release:        9%{?dist}
+Version:        0.5.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption support
 Requires:       python-websockify
 
 License:        GPLv3
 URL:            https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC
-Source0:        https://github.com/downloads/kanaka/noVNC/novnc-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://github.com/downloads/kanaka/noVNC/v%{version}.tar.gz
 
-Patch1:         novnc-0.4-call-websockify.patch
 Patch2:         novnc-0.4-manpage.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
@@ -17,8 +16,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 Websocket implementation of VNC client
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-%patch1 -p1
+%setup -q -n noVNC-%{version}
 %patch2 -p1
 
 %build
@@ -56,6 +54,11 @@ install -m 444 docs/novnc_server.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/
 %{_mandir}/man1/novnc_server.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jan 10 2015 Alan Pevec <apevec@redhat.com> - 0.5.1-1
+- update to the new upstream version, for changes since 0.4 see:
+  https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.5
+  https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.5.1
+
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.4-9
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3fb4a4d..f69b533 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5703d5d46022d8723796dcbbf821ee7f  novnc-0.4.tar.gz
+ac55b2316b2164b6e09ae3bd89c37cb6  v0.5.1.tar.gz