diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d6c6804..68afb41 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ pyalsa-1.0.22.tar.bz2
 /pyalsa-1.0.26.tar.bz2
 /pyalsa-1.0.29.tar.bz2
 /pyalsa-1.1.6.tar.bz2
+/pyalsa-1.2.6.tar.bz2
diff --git a/5ea2f8709b4d091700750661231f8a3ddce0fc7c.patch b/5ea2f8709b4d091700750661231f8a3ddce0fc7c.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cb2bf75..0000000
--- a/5ea2f8709b4d091700750661231f8a3ddce0fc7c.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-From 5ea2f8709b4d091700750661231f8a3ddce0fc7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:00:50 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix PyTuple_SET_ITEM() usage - no return value
-
-As noted in bpo-30459 (link bellow) the PyTuple_SET_ITEM() macro
-has not a return value. Let's make code compatible with python 3.10.
-
-Link: https://bugs.python.org/issue30459
-BugLink: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-python/issues/2
-Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
----
- pyalsa/alsahcontrol.c | 4 ++--
- pyalsa/alsamixer.c    | 4 ++--
- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/pyalsa/alsahcontrol.c b/pyalsa/alsahcontrol.c
-index ebee1b7..7c9321f 100644
---- a/pyalsa/alsahcontrol.c
-+++ b/pyalsa/alsahcontrol.c
-@@ -1543,8 +1543,8 @@ static int element_callback(snd_hctl_elem_t *elem, unsigned int mask)
- 
- 	t = PyTuple_New(2);
- 	if (t) {
--		if (PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 0, (PyObject *)pyhelem))
--			Py_INCREF(pyhelem);
-+		PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 0, (PyObject *)pyhelem);
-+		Py_INCREF(pyhelem);
- 		PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 1, PyInt_FromLong(mask));
- 		r = PyObject_CallObject(o, t);
- 		Py_DECREF(t);
-diff --git a/pyalsa/alsamixer.c b/pyalsa/alsamixer.c
-index 39d7387..91fe198 100644
---- a/pyalsa/alsamixer.c
-+++ b/pyalsa/alsamixer.c
-@@ -1348,8 +1348,8 @@ static int element_callback(snd_mixer_elem_t *elem, unsigned int mask)
- 
- 	t = PyTuple_New(2);
- 	if (t) {
--		if (PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 0, (PyObject *)pyelem))
--			Py_INCREF(pyelem);
-+		PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 0, (PyObject *)pyelem);
-+		Py_INCREF(pyelem);
- 		PyTuple_SET_ITEM(t, 1, PyInt_FromLong(mask));
- 		r = PyObject_CallObject(o, t);
- 		Py_DECREF(t);
diff --git a/python-alsa.spec b/python-alsa.spec
index f093533..f88573f 100644
--- a/python-alsa.spec
+++ b/python-alsa.spec
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
-%define		baseversion 1.1.6
+%define		baseversion 1.2.6
 
 Summary:	Python binding for the ALSA library
 Name:		python-alsa
 Version:	%{baseversion}
-Release:	17%{?dist}
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 License:	LGPLv2+
 Source0:	ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/pyalsa/pyalsa-%{version}.tar.bz2
 URL:		http://www.alsa-project.org/
 BuildRequires:	alsa-lib-devel >= %{version}
 BuildRequires:	python3-devel
-BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
+BuildRequires:	python3-setuptools
 BuildRequires:	gcc
 
-Patch0:         5ea2f8709b4d091700750661231f8a3ddce0fc7c.patch
-
 # Filter private shared library provides
 %global __provides_exclude_from ^(%{python2_sitearch}|%{python3_sitearch})/.*\\.so$
 
@@ -41,6 +39,9 @@ Summary: %summary
 %{python3_sitearch}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Dec 06 2021 Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> - 1.2.6-1
+- Updated to 1.2.6
+
 * Fri Jul 23 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.6-17
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0c86466..03fcec6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pyalsa-1.1.6.tar.bz2) = 6c6aee1ad32c2208ab3f91defee5651cca8bb414479ff80e8a1bd6791ec1df2218a61dd8e7c01f95bd5d51807776034ff96cca2b935e9e4e23d13b6c3c40a0dd
+SHA512 (pyalsa-1.2.6.tar.bz2) = 11b8eed822e0f8acc96ff0e10eeec0ba26b2997c7a0000b1d82561661f59931cd6b6aa6397b46c5944a0853344517878ede6c9ba13bea241cefc72b72bf1d9ff