diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8e5af0d..483ffa2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 pigz-2.1.6.tar.gz
+/pigz-2.2.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/pigz.spec b/pigz.spec
index 3b84543..6c910b1 100644
--- a/pigz.spec
+++ b/pigz.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           pigz
-Version:        2.1.6
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        2.2.3
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Parallel implementation of gzip
 
 Group:          Applications/File
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 18 2012 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com> - 2.2.3-1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.6-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index fbac3d9..a3fa113 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-cbe9030c4be3d0ef2438ee5f8b169ca4  pigz-2.1.6.tar.gz
+8330a6c6a3e5f1954687aaba4b973a6f  pigz-2.2.3.tar.gz