diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a2db6e4..b636383 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /python-pyopencl-2015.2.tar.gz
 /pyopencl-2016.1.tar.gz
 /pyopencl-2016.2.1.tar.gz
+/pyopencl-2017.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/pyopencl-switch-to-gnu++11.patch b/pyopencl-switch-to-gnu++11.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 493e295..0000000
--- a/pyopencl-switch-to-gnu++11.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -up pyopencl-2016.1/setup.py.than pyopencl-2016.1/setup.py
---- pyopencl-2016.1/setup.py.than	2017-01-17 11:55:18.450292176 -0500
-+++ pyopencl-2016.1/setup.py	2017-01-17 11:55:34.580575378 -0500
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def get_config_schema():
-             IncludeDir, LibraryDir, Libraries, \
-             Switch, StringListOption
- 
--    default_cxxflags = ['-std=c++0x']
-+    default_cxxflags = ['-std=gnu++11']
- 
-     if 'darwin' in sys.platform:
-         import platform
diff --git a/python-pyopencl.spec b/python-pyopencl.spec
index 297880a..5d18c94 100644
--- a/python-pyopencl.spec
+++ b/python-pyopencl.spec
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
-Version:        2016.2.1
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        2017.2
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Python wrapper for OpenCL
 
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219819#c16
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ Patch0:         0001-use-system-compyte.patch
 Patch1:         0002-disable-executing-git-submodule.patch
 # Have not asked upstream, but they want to enforce CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
 Patch2:         0003-don-t-hack-distutils-with-C-LDFLAGS.patch
-# switching to gnu++11 to fix the build failure on ppc64le
-Patch3:         pyopencl-switch-to-gnu++11.patch
 
 # pyopencl/cl/pyopencl-bessel-[j,y].cl and
 # pyopencl/cl/pyopencl-eval-tbl.cl contain snippets taken from boost
@@ -80,7 +78,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python2-cffi
 %if %{with tests}
 BuildRequires:  python2-pytest
 BuildRequires:  python2-compyte
-BuildRequires:  python2-pytools
+BuildRequires:  python2-pytools >= 2017.2
 BuildRequires:  python2-decorator
 BuildRequires:  python2-appdirs
 BuildRequires:  python2-six
@@ -89,7 +87,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python2-scipy
 %endif
 Requires:       python2-compyte
 Requires:       python2-numpy
-Requires:       python2-pytools
+Requires:       python2-pytools >= 2017.2
 Requires:       python2-decorator
 Requires:       python2-cffi
 Requires:       python2-appdirs
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-cffi
 %if %{with tests}
 BuildRequires:  python3-pytest
 BuildRequires:  python3-compyte
-BuildRequires:  python3-pytools
+BuildRequires:  python3-pytools >= 2017.2
 BuildRequires:  python3-decorator
 BuildRequires:  python3-appdirs
 BuildRequires:  python3-six
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-scipy
 %endif
 Requires:       python3-compyte
 Requires:       python3-numpy
-Requires:       python3-pytools
+Requires:       python3-pytools >= 2017.2
 Requires:       python3-decorator
 Requires:       python3-cffi
 Requires:       python3-appdirs
@@ -176,6 +174,9 @@ popd
 %{python3_sitearch}/%{srcname}-*.egg-info/
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 15 2017 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko@redhat.com> - 2017.2-1
+- Update to 2017.2
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2016.2.1-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index df0688b..82802a6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (pyopencl-2016.2.1.tar.gz) = 2519ecdf7f9ef866ec5043fa228235e12aae301b71e601f42e418303cbc0885a3348e228d6c77c7a2496907bf6bfd9d8e66c9e2aa9284ea50403c483c1969eb3
+SHA512 (pyopencl-2017.2.tar.gz) = 2b0d525574d913e79d9a0682dc325a139e336f37e2279e964134cb0b11aeaa2cf62e6270ed864c8fb5db7c665750b72fdc21c1d3be9a3c946aa7ec50f6147a16