diff --git a/phatch-0.2.7-fromstring-tostring-deprecated.patch b/phatch-0.2.7-fromstring-tostring-deprecated.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c210d00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phatch-0.2.7-fromstring-tostring-deprecated.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff -Naur phatch-0.2.7.orig/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py phatch-0.2.7/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py
+--- phatch-0.2.7.orig/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py	2016-08-21 10:23:45.000000000 +0200
++++ phatch-0.2.7/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py	2016-08-21 11:28:39.505641044 +0200
+@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@
+         image = image.convert('RGBA')
+     if image.mode == 'RGBA':
+         wx_image = wx.EmptyImage(*image.size)
+-        wx_image.SetData(image.convert("RGB").tostring())
++        wx_image.SetData(image.convert("RGB").tobytes())
+         wx_image.InitAlpha()
+         wx_image.SetAlphaData(
+-            image.convert("RGBA").split()[-1].tostring())
++            image.convert("RGBA").split()[-1].tobytes())
+     else:
+         wx_image = wx.EmptyImage(*image.size)
+         new_image = image.convert('RGB')
+-        data = new_image.tostring()
++        data = new_image.tobytes()
+         wx_image.SetData(data)
+     return wx_image
+ 
+@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@
+ def wxImage_pil(wx_image):
+     size = wx_image.GetSize()
+     image = Image.new('RGB', size)
+-    image.fromstring(wx_image.GetData())
++    image.frombytes(wx_image.GetData())
+     if wx_image.HasAlpha():
+         alpha = Image.new('L', size)
+         wx_alpha = wx_image.GetAlphaData()
+-        alpha.fromstring(wx_alpha)
++        alpha.frombytes(wx_alpha)
+         image = image.convert('RGBA')
+         image.putalpha(alpha)
+     return image
diff --git a/phatch.spec b/phatch.spec
index 2e1cbba..05c54e5 100644
--- a/phatch.spec
+++ b/phatch.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name:           phatch
 Version:        0.2.7
-Release:        25%{?dist}
+Release:        26%{?dist}
 Summary:        Photo batch processor
 Group:          Applications/Multimedia
 License:        GPLv3+
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Patch2:         pyexiv2_compat.patch
 Patch3:         phatch-pillow.patch
 Patch4:         phatch-gtk3-compatibility.patch
 Patch5:         phatch-wxpy3.0-compat.patch
+Patch6:         phatch-0.2.7-fromstring-tostring-deprecated.patch
 
 %description
 Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ sed -i -e "s@help_path =.*@help_path=\'%{_docdir}/%{name}\'@" %{name}/pyWx/gui.p
 %patch3 -p1 -b .orig
 %patch4 -p0 -b .orig
 %patch5 -p1 -b .orig
+%patch6 -p1 -b .orig
 
 
 %build
@@ -188,6 +190,9 @@ update-mime-database %{?fedora:-n} %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Aug 21 2016 Jaromír Cápík <jaromir.capik@email.cz> - 0.2.7-26
+- Fixing deprecated fromstring/tostring [patch from Nuno Dias] (#1297194)
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.7-25
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages