diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 00c20cb..91e3e0d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /pymodbus-0.9.0.tar.gz
 /pymodbus-75ac6a80573c332422067f9d72fc965306b6f141.tar.gz
 /v1.3.1.tar.gz
+/v1.4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/pymodbus-1.3.1-remove-ez_setup.patch b/pymodbus-1.3.1-remove-ez_setup.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ea5613..0000000
--- a/pymodbus-1.3.1-remove-ez_setup.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
-index 258524c..b85c4bd 100644
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
-@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#new-and-changed-setup-keyword
- try: # if not installed, install and proceed
-     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
- except ImportError:
--    from ez_setup import use_setuptools
--    use_setuptools()
-     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
- 
- try:
-@@ -58,7 +56,6 @@ setup(name  = 'pymodbus',
-     license = 'BSD',
-     packages = find_packages(exclude=['examples', 'test']),
-     exclude_package_data = {'' : ['examples', 'test', 'tools', 'doc']},
--    py_modules = ['ez_setup'],
-     platforms = ['Linux', 'Mac OS X', 'Win'],
-     include_package_data = True,
-     zip_safe = True,
diff --git a/pymodbus-1.4.0-remove-ez_setup.patch b/pymodbus-1.4.0-remove-ez_setup.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5616af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pymodbus-1.4.0-remove-ez_setup.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -uNr pymodbus-1.4.0.old/setup.py pymodbus-1.4.0/setup.py
+--- pymodbus-1.4.0.old/setup.py	2018-01-03 08:15:31.000000000 +0100
++++ pymodbus-1.4.0/setup.py	2018-04-15 23:24:10.482205858 +0200
+@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
+ try:  # if not installed, install and proceed
+     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ except ImportError:
+-    from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+-    use_setuptools()
+     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ 
+ try:
+@@ -61,7 +59,6 @@
+     license='BSD',
+     packages=find_packages(exclude=['examples', 'test']),
+     exclude_package_data={'': ['examples', 'test', 'tools', 'doc']},
+-    py_modules=['ez_setup'],
+     platforms=['Linux', 'Mac OS X', 'Win'],
+     include_package_data=True,
+     zip_safe=True,
diff --git a/pymodbus.spec b/pymodbus.spec
index 6a76b21..ecd6f22 100644
--- a/pymodbus.spec
+++ b/pymodbus.spec
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ Server Features \
     * A number of backing contexts (database, redis, a slave device)
 
 Name: pymodbus
-Version: 1.3.1
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.4.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: %{sum}
 
 Group: Development/Languages
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ License: BSD
 URL: https://github.com/riptideio/pymodbus
 Source0: https://github.com/riptideio/pymodbus/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
 # to avoid packaging ez_setup
-Patch0: pymodbus-1.3.1-remove-ez_setup.patch
+Patch0: pymodbus-1.4.0-remove-ez_setup.patch
 BuildArch: noarch
 BuildRequires: python2-devel python3-devel
 
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ Requires: python3-pyserial >= 2.6
 
 # install LICENSE and Changelog
 %{__mkdir} -p %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
-%{__install} -p doc/LICENSE %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
-%{__install} -p CHANGELOG.rst %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/CHANGELOG
+%{__install} -m 644 -p doc/LICENSE %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
+%{__install} -m 644 -p CHANGELOG.rst %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/CHANGELOG
 
 %files -n python2-%{name}
 %license %{_docdir}/%{name}/LICENSE
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ Requires: python3-pyserial >= 2.6
 %{python3_sitelib}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 19 2018 Christian Krause <chkr@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.0-1
+- Updated to the latest upstream release 1.4.0
+- Updated patch to disable ez_setup
+
 * Fri Feb 09 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.1-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index f05a730..b1a3d2b 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (v1.3.1.tar.gz) = c8e6e8751012875a6410ee9119af04cf39cd017de36c0f37d49ae33a178c26abb98e9e92e44914638bcdbbd4616de4906d19bb36c6a8e3e956b03341c0265b5c
+SHA512 (v1.4.0.tar.gz) = 7a9669fd00e4f7551d1933c5ca6d2b72d1624b60d691a9afb2680e97684e7d2252c81c4bafe80f8d54259b22b438409eaaa53ab647fb5e832eb99c498180b18d